Applications and Use of Microemulsions

During the past five decades since the discovery of microemulsions by Jack H. Shulman, there have been huge progresses made in applying microemulsion systems in a plethora of research and industrial processes. While it is beyond the scope of this paper to give a complete review of all significant developments and applications, it will attempt to highlight several recent developments in applications that might interest readers for whom this paper serves as an introduction to microemulsions. In that note, the relevance of this paper and the truncated scientific background on microemulsions are first discussed.