“…After the first report on the use of a microemulsion as a running buffer in CE, an increasing number of papers describing different applications of microemulsion electrokinetic chromatography (MEEKC) were published. MEEKC has been shown to be useful for the separation of very lipophilic substances such as polyaromatic hydrocarbons (Watarai, 1991;Altria, 2000) and fat-soluble vitamins (Altria, 1999;PedersenBjergaard et al, 2000), and very hydrophilic substances like water-soluble vitamins (Boso et al, 1995;Altria, 1999) and proteins (Zhou et al, 1999), as well as pharmaceuticals (Terabe et al, 1992;Altria, 1999) and natural products (Debusschère et al, 1997;Li et al, 1998).…”