Abstract
Data on the rheological properties of the hexadecyl-trimethylammonium salicylate system (CTAB-SA) in water are reported. Three concentrations were used (0.1, 0.01, and 0.001 M). For the highest concentration, the effect of temperature on the rheology was studied in detail.
The rheology of the 0.1 M CTAB-SA solution indicates a very uniform micellar size. By contrast with concentrated polymethyl methycrylate dispersions studied by the author, there was a strong divergence between the viscosity-shear rate and viscosity-frequency data, although the plateau low shear rate and frequency values agreed over a wide range of temperature. This effect could be explained by a shear rate dependent diffusion constant. The large temperature variation of the plateau viscosity and elasticity modulus values could be explained by a combination of micellar number concentration and flexibility changes as the temperature varies.
At lower concentrations, the rheological data shows evidence of polydispersity in micellar size. Strong shear thickening and extensional viscosity effects are also evident, probably due to micellar overlap and cluster formation in strong shear fields and the alignment of the very long micelles in elongational flow. The shear thickening effects take some 200 s to relax (0.01 M solution). Recovery of the elasticity after shearing the 0.1 M solution is rapid (a few hundred milliseconds).
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Strivens, T.A. The rheological properties of concentrated cetyltrimethylammonium bromide-salicylic acid solutions in water. Colloid & Polymer Sci 267, 269–280 (1989). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01410585
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