Extreme swelling of a lyotropic lamellar liquid crystal
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Abstract
The evolution of the OBS/water/decane/pentanol lyotropic lamellar crystal is followed from 0% to more than 90% decane content. The lamellar spacing (d) varies then from 35 Å to 11000 Å. The swelling is followed with small angle x-ray scattering and the Bragg divergence in the intensity is found to disappear in moderately swollen lamellar crystal (d from 200 Å up to 800 Å) while the central scattering increases. More striking is the reappearance of the Bragg divergences observed by SAXS (d from 800 Å to 1100 Å) and for extremely swollen lamellar crystals in the angular distribution of scattered light (d from 2 000 Å to 10 000 Å). We discuss these observations along the lines of the recent models of swollen lamellar liquid crystals and in particular the apparent evolution of the dilute lamellae.
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Lyotropic-lamellar-liquid-crystal dilution SAXS light-scatteringPreview
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