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Materials 2011, 4, 55-72; doi:10.3390/ma4010055 OPEN ACCESS materials ISSN 1996-1944 /journal/materials Review Surfactant Effects on Microemulsion-Based Nanoparticle Synthesis Concha Tojo *, Miguel de Dios and Fernando Barroso Physical Chemistry Department, Faculty of Chemistry, University of Vigo, E-36310 Vigo, Spain; E-Mails: mdedios@uvigo.es (M.D.D.); ferbarroso@uvigo.es (F.B.) * Author to whom correspondence should be addressed; E-Mail: ctojo@uvigo.es; Tel.: +34-986-812299; Fax: +34-986-812321. Received: 24 November 2010; in revised form: 17 December 2010 / Accepted: 21 December 2010 / Published: 29 December 2010 Abstract: The effect of the surfactant on the size, polydispersity, type of size distribution and structure of nanoparticles synthesized in microemulsions has been studied by computer simulation. The model simulates the surfactant by means of two parameters: the intermicellar exchange parameter, kex, related to dimer life time, and film flexibility parameter, f , related to interdroplet channel size. One can conclude that an increase in surfactant flexibility leads to bigger and polydisperse nanoparticle sizes. In addition, at high concentrations, the same reaction gives rise to a unimodal distribution using a flexible surfactant, and a bimodal distribution using a rigid one. In relation to bimetallic nanoparticles, if the nanoparticle is composed of two metals with a moderate difference in reduction p