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COLLOID AND POLYMER SCIENCE
Volume 287, Issue 11, Pages 1305-1315Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s00396-009-2097-x
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Amino acid surfactant; Cationic surfactants; Phase behavior; Wormlike micelles; Rheology; Viscoelastic solutions
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Amino acid-based anionic surfactant, N-dodecanoylglutamic acid, after neutralizing by 2, 2', 2aEuro(3)-nitrilotriethanol forms micellar solution at 25 A degrees C. Addition of cationic cosurfactants hexadecyltrimethylammonium chloride (CTAC), hexadecylpyridinium chloride (CPC), and hexadecylpyridinium bromide (CPB) to the semi-dilute solution of anionic surfactant micellar solutions favor the micellar growth and after a certain concentration, entangled rigid network of wormlike micelles are formed. Viscosity increases enormously similar to 4th order of magnitude compared with water. With further addition of the cosurfactants, viscosity declines and phase separation to liquid crystal occurs. The wormlike micelles showed a viscoelastic behavior and described by Maxwell model with a single stress-relaxation mode. The position of viscosity maximum in the zero-shear viscosity curve shifts towards lower concentration upon changing cosurfactant from CPB to CTAC via CPC; however, the maximum viscosity is highest in the CPB system showing the formation of highly rigid network structure of wormlike micelles. In all the systems, viscosity decays exponentially with temperature following Arrhenius type behavior.
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