ABSTRACT
Emulsions are encountered both in nature and in many man-made goods. They are used in two-phase products such as foodstuff, paints, pharmaceuticals, cosmetics, and many others. Alternatively, they provide some interfacial or operational property of interest such as a high contact area in liquid-liquid extraction and emulsion polymerization or a controlled mass transfer rate in drug release and pollution remediation. They are increasingly involved in industrial processes, from the small-scale batch preparation of fine-tuned products such as cosmetics to the large-scale manufacturing of millions of tons per year of emulsified fuel [1-4].
