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Emulsions are employed and therefore produced on a large scale for a broad variety of applications, from road surfacing and painting to therapeutic drug delivery. The basic principles set out in this book control the behavior of emulsions in the many steps involved in most practical applications of emulsions. The understanding of the basics of emulsions has certainly progressed in recent years, so that improvements in the way emulsions are applied are a definite hope in the near future. Mainly because of the possibility of producing controlled, repeatable emulsions, the domain of potential applications is expanding towards very high-technology applications. The use of double emulsions as controlled vectors for drug delivery, and the use of emulsions possessing magnetic properties for high-sensitivity biological diagnostics or cell sorting are among a few examples.
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(2002). General Conclusion. In: Emulsion Science. Springer Tracts in Modern Physics, vol 181. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-70820-0_8
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