ABSTRACT
The phenomenon of clouding of surfactant solutions is important in several industrial processes such as detergency and separation [1]. Understanding the mechanism underlying this phenomenon and developing methods for quantitative interpretation of experimental results have been challenging tasks. There have been attempts to develop systematic methods for analyzing this phenomenon [2,3]. The present chapter reviews these developments and suggests investigations to extract molecular level parameters characterizing the clouding phenomenon. The developments have become feasible for the following reasons.
