The phase behavior for systems containing sodium bis(2-ethylhexyl sulfosuccinate) (AOT), with the cationic hydrotrope tetraethyl ammonium chloride (TEAC), in the presence of water and heptane were studied. Formulations of microemulsion for such systems and for systems containing the so called “extended surfactant” were carried out at different salt concentrations. Anisotropy was detected using ...

Mannosylerythritol lipid-A (MEL-A) is a glycolipid biosurfactant abundantly produced from soybean oil by microorganisms at a yield of up to 100 g/L. In this study, the formation of water-in-oil (W/O) microemulsion based on the single component of MEL-A was confirmed using dynamic light scattering (DLS) and freeze fracture electron microscopy (FF-EM). DLS and FF-EM measurements revealed that the...

Temperature dependent phase behavior of Pseudo-ternary Thiourea X-100 +1-hexanol (1:5 molar ratios)/oil/water systems is reported. The influence of nature of hydrocarbon oil and type of electrolytes (weak as well as strong) has been investigated on the temperature induced phase behavior of the ternary system. At surfactant concentration, Φs = 40%, a “nose shaped” microemulsion region is observe...

Ž . Ultrafine lead titanate PbTiO powders in tetragonal form have been successfully prepared via two processing routes, 3 Ž . Ž . namely, conventional coprecipitation CPC and microemulsion-refined coprecipitation MCP . The formation process of lead titanate from the resulting precursors was monitored using techniques such as thermal analyses, FTIR spectroscopy, Raman scattering spectroscopy and...

Microemulsions prepared by using either sodium dodecyl sulfate (SDS) or trimethyltetradecylammonium bromide (TTAB) were tested with regard to the migration time, selectivity and number of theoretical plates using a set of both water-soluble and lipid-soluble vitamins. While in the separations where SDS was used as the surface-active agent for microemulsion preparation, better resolutions were o...

The enantiomeric separation of basic drugs was successfully demonstrated by using a novel chiral microemulsion electrokinetic chromatography (MEEKC). An interesting finding was that the chiral oil core ((S)-(+)-2-octanol) within the microemulsion droplets appeared to play an important role in the chiral separation mechanism. In addition, the enantioselectivity of the analyte-selector complex co...

Zinc oxide (ZnO) nanostructures of uniform shapes and sizes (spherical, needle-like, and acicular) were directly synthesized using a relatively precursor-insensitive water-in-n-heptane microemulsion system stabilized by a mixture of cationic and non-ionic surfactants. With this colloidal system, the synthesized ZnO possesses the highest reported surface area (76 m(2) g(-1)) among the published ...

2014 We first deduce the rigidity coefficient K of a surfactant monolayer at the oil water interface from ellipsometric measurements. For our surfactant monolayer containing alcohol, we find unusually small values of K (K ~ kB T). We then study the oil microemulsion and water microemulsion interfaces, covered with the same film. On the microemulsion side of the film we find a perturbed zone, th...

Silver chromate (Ag2CrO4) photocatalysts are prepared by microemulsion, precipitation, and hydrothermal methods, in order to investigate the effect of preparation methods on the structure and the visible-light photocatalytic activity. It is found that the photocatalytic activity of the prepared Ag2CrO4was highly dependent on the preparation methods. The sample prepared by microemulsion method e...

Small-angle neutron scattering (SANS) studies of reversible addition-fragmentation chain transfer (RAFT) microemulsion polymerizations of butyl acrylate and 2-ethylhexyl acrylate with the RAFT agent methyl2-(O-ethylxanthyl)propionate (MOEP) allow the observed rate retardation to be attributed to slow fragmentation of the macro-RAFT radical. Microemulsion polymerization allows the RAFT mechanism...