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Much activity has been devoted to the intensive study of lyotropic systems and more specifically of microemulsions[1] because of their practical applications: oil enhanced recovery, cosmetic industry, pharmacology etc.[2]. From a more fundamental point of view, these systems are very interesting because of their fascinating properties: critical behavior[3,4], percolation transition[5], ultralow interfacial tensions[6] and extraordinarily rich phase diagrams[7,8]. The usual application of micro-emulsions recovers isotropic thermodynamically stable dispersions of water in oil (or oil in water) whose characteristic size is of order of one hundred Å and thus are transparent to visible light. These systems are stabilized by a surfactant forming an interfacial film separating oil and water often associated to a cosurfactant (usually a short-tail alcohol).
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di Meglio, J.M., Dvolaitzky, M., Taupin, C. (1989). Determination of the Rigidity Constant of the Amphiphilic Film in Birefringent Microemulsions, Spin-Labeling and Quasielastic Light Scattering Experiments. In: Martellucci, S., Chester, A.N. (eds) Progress in Microemulsions. Ettore Majorana International Science Series, vol 41. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-0809-4_19
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