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Shear thickening, temporal shear oscillations, and degradation of dilute equimolar CTAB/NaSal wormlike solutions

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The rheological characterization of dilute and semi-dilute equimolar cetyltrimethylammonium bromide and sodium salicylate solutions is reported, including their linear and nonlinear responses. Start-up experiments and direct birefringence measurements suggest that even at a concentration of as low as 1.0 mM, temporal shear oscillations occur at low shear rates. At concentrations above 10 mM, those low-stress structures vanish and give way to shear-thickening and shear-banding behaviors as seen for other semi-dilute surfactant solutions. Also, the degradation of these solutions after exposure to rubber pump tubing is covered.

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VLB acknowledges financial support by ETH Zurich and PSI as well as SANS measurements time. This work is also a collaboration with the Erasmus Mundus MaMaSELF program (Master in Materials Science Exploiting Large Scale Facilities—mamaself.eu) with the grant number 2010-0138.

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  2. Paul Scherrer Institute, Laboratory of Neutron Scattering, 5234, Villigen, Switzerland

    Viviane Lutz-Bueno & Joachim Kohlbrecher

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Lutz-Bueno, V., Kohlbrecher, J. & Fischer, P. Shear thickening, temporal shear oscillations, and degradation of dilute equimolar CTAB/NaSal wormlike solutions. Rheol Acta 52, 297–312 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00397-012-0672-4

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