Particular types of samples, such as those containing detergent, may create emulsions when doing an oil-in-water extraction into a solvent. The boundary between the sample and the solvent will have an ...

Emulsions that mix immiscible liquids are central to products from food to cosmetics. For instance, emulsions like mayonnaise mix liquids that don’t normally blend. They require added molecules called ...

DURING the last few months, five emulsions formed during extractions, and unbreakable by any of the usual methods, have been broken rapidly and completely by addition of a wetting agent under the ...

The solvent evaporation method is the most widely applied technique for microsphere preparation. In industrial production, it can be carried out using a reaction vessel or a static mixer, each with ...

Most of the skincare products are intrinsically unstable, as per the second law of thermodynamics, as these products signify a combination of two or more substances that are immiscible in each other.

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The proliferation of large-scale DNA-sequencing projects in recent years has driven a search for alternative methods to reduce time and cost. Here we describe a scalable, highly parallel sequencing ...