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In this experimental work we carefully investigate the rheological behaviour and in particular the shear thickening exhibited by aqueous micellar solutions of CTAB with NaSal as added counterion. We are particularly interested in the evolution of the critical shear rate (at which shear thickening occurs) versus C D , the surfactant concentration. We show that , at fixed salt concentration C S , increases with C D following a power law evolution with a positive exponent of + 5.8. On the other hand we show that if the ratio C D / C S is fixed, decreases with C D with a negative exponent of -2.0. Nevertheless investigations of the zero shear viscosity indicate that in all situations (implying variation of the surfactant concentration C D , or the salt concentration C S or the temperature) is a decreasing function of the length of the micelles. All these evolutions are compatible with a gelation mechanism which could possibly be associated with entanglement effects of large interacting flowing structures.
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Received: 3 March 1998 / Revised: 16 June 1998 / Accepted: 3 July 1998
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Cressely, R., Hartmann, V. Rheological behaviour and shear thickening exhibited by aqueous CTAB micellar solutions. Eur. Phys. J. B 6, 57–62 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1007/s100510050526
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s100510050526