Electrochemical elucidation of structural changes in physical organo bicontinuous microemulsion gel systems

Abstract

The structural changes in a bicontinuous microemulsion gel system in a sol–gel state were elucidated via determination of the apparent diffusion coefficients, which were estimated electrochemically. The temperature dependence of D_app in the micro oil phase or the saline phase revealed complementary hysteresis, which occurred as a result of formation of a gel network and subsequent mesoscopic phase separation.