Nanoemulsions: formation, structure, and physical properties

@article{Mason2006NanoemulsionsFS,
  title={Nanoemulsions: formation, structure, and physical properties},
  author={Thomas G. Mason and James N Wilking and K. Meleson and C. B. Chang and Sara M. Graves},
  journal={Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter},
  year={2006},
  volume={18},
  pages={R635 - R666},
  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:11570614}
}
We summarize procedures for producing ‘nanoemulsions’ comprised of nanoscale droplets, methods for controlling the droplet size distribution and composition, and interesting physical properties of nanoemulsions. In contrast to more common microscale emulsions, nanoemulsions exhibit optical transparency at high droplet volume fractions, ϕ, surprisingly strong elasticity at low ϕ, and enhanced diffusive transport and shelf stability. For these reasons, nanoemulsions have great potential in a wide… 
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