TY - CHAP AU - Gonzalo Astray AU - Antonio Cid AU - Oscar Adrián Moldes AU - Juan Carlos Mejuto ED - Desiree Nedra Karunaratne ED - Geethi Pamunuwa ED - Udayana Ranatunga Y1 - 2017-05-24 PY - 2017 T1 - Influence of Amphiphiles on Percolation of AOT-Based Microemulsions Prediction Using Artificial Neural Networks N2 - Properties and Uses of Microemulsions is intended to provide the reader with some important applications and features of these systems. The intricate composition of microemulsions has made them applicable in many areas such as cosmetics, pharmaceuticals, food, agriculture, oil recovery, chemical synthesis of nanoparticles, and catalysts. An introductory chapter starts off with the description of these applications followed by methods of characterization. Thereafter, a few practical applications of microemulsions focusing on drug delivery, oil recovery, and formation of nanocatalysts are described followed by the third section discussing the theoretical and physical parameters predicting microemulsion properties. The use of spin-polarized paramagnetic probes, bending energetics, and study of self-propelled motion are some of the physical parameters employed to characterize the microemulsions. BT - Properties and Uses of Microemulsions SP - Ch. 8 UR - https://doi.org/10.5772/66766 DO - 10.5772/66766 SN - 978-953-51-3172-4 PB - IntechOpen CY - Rijeka Y2 - 2024-03-28 ER -