  During the past five decades since the discovery of microemulsions by Jack H.
Shulman, there have been huge progresses made in applying microemulsion systems
in a plethora of research and industrial processes. While it is beyond the
scope of this paper to give a complete review of all significant developments
and applications, it will attempt to highlight several recent developments in
applications that might interest readers for whom this paper serves as an
introduction to microemulsions. In that note, the relevance of this paper and
the truncated scientific background on microemulsions are first discussed.
