Mixed wormlike micelles of cationic surfactants: Effect of the cosurfactant chain length on the bending elasticity and rheological properties

Colloids and Surfaces A: Physicochemical and Engineering Aspects

Volumn 406, Issue , 2012, Pages 31-37

  Oelschlaeger, Claude ^a   Willenbacher, Norbert ^a  

^a KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Mixed cationic micelles; Persistence length; Rheology

Indexed keywords

BROMINE COMPOUNDS; CATIONIC SURFACTANTS; CHAIN LENGTH; DYES; HYDROPHOBICITY; MICELLES; MIXTURES; RHEOLOGY;

ALKYL CHAIN; BENDING ELASTICITY; CARBON ATOMS; CATIONIC MICELLES; CO-SURFACTANTS; FREQUENCY RANGES; HEXADECYL TRIMETHYL AMMONIUM BROMIDE; HIGH FREQUENCY; HYDROPHOBIC MOIETIES; HYDROPHOBIC TAILS; LINEAR VISCOELASTICITY; MODEL SYSTEM; MONOTONIC DECREASE; PERSISTENCE LENGTH; PLATEAU MODULI; RHEOLOGICAL PROPERTY; RHEOMETRY; SHORT-CHAIN SURFACTANTS; SHORTER CHAINS; THEORETICAL PREDICTION; WORM-LIKE MICELLES; ZERO SHEAR VISCOSITY;

ELASTICITY;

CARBON; CATIONIC SURFACTANT; COSURFACTANT; TRIMETHYLAMMONIUM SALT DERIVATIVE;

ARTICLE; ATOM; CHEMICAL INTERACTION; ELASTICITY; FLOW MEASUREMENT; HYDROPHOBICITY; MICELLE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURFACE TENSION; VISCOELASTICITY; VISCOSITY; YOUNG MODULUS;

EID: 84861993982     PISSN: 09277757     EISSN: 18734359     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.colsurfa.2012.04.045     Document Type: Article

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