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The creation of effective and novel organic, nontoxic, and eco-friendly supplements is currently gaining popularity. The need for further greener products will increase exponentially over time. Healthy, green, and sustainable colloidal systems that satisfy these requirements and standards include green nanoemulsions. As the name implies, green nanoemulsions are nano-sized emulsions that are safer, more functionally effective, and kinetically stable than standard emulsions. Oil and water are often distributed into one another to form nanoemulsions, with one of the components acting as a medium (continuous or external phase). The other, however, is suspended within the medium (discontinuous or internal phase). The synthesis of biological nanoemulsion is called ‘Green Chemistry’, as it is the more advanced field in science and technology for enhancing biomedicine and plant based or agricultural studies. The size of nanoparticles in the nanoemulsions are extremely small that ranges between 1 and 100 nm. Phase inversion, micro fluidization, solvent dispersion etc. are some of the method for the production of nanoemulsions. Different microscopy and electronic instruments are used for the characterization of nanoemulsions like zeta potential, transmission electron microscopy etc. The usage of emulsion are in cosmetics, lubricants, nano-medicine, pain, catalyst and many more. The recent advancements in science have come up with many new branches and catapulted the existing fields to new heights and one such field is nanotechnology that has led to advancements in many areas. Hence, the purpose of this chapter is based on the different methods for the production of nanoemulsions with their properties.
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Sinha, A. et al. (2023). Introduction to Green Nanoemulsions and Their Properties. In: Husen, A., Bachheti, R.K., Bachheti, A. (eds) Current Trends in Green Nano-emulsions. Smart Nanomaterials Technology. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-5398-1_1
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