Some Relevant Aspects of Microemulsions for Particle Preparation

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Even though microemulsions are considered to be stable, they are dynamic systems in which droplets are involved in continuous collisions with each other. Some of those collisions result in coalesced drops that trend to break up since they are not thermodynamically stable. For further details see Li Park and Agrell et al. and references therein . 

As the particle formation will start in the interior of the droplet, its structure and its ability to exchange the micellar-containing material will influence the nature of the formed colloidal particles . 

Metal precursor Particle size (nm) Surfactant Oil phase Reducing agent Preparation method Reference 

At constant amount of water and reactants, i.e. metal salts, increasing the surfactant concentration will increase the number of reversed micelle aggregates. This means that the number of metal salt molecules per micelle will be lower and consequently the number of metal particles formed will increase. This was shown 

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