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Contrasting the Effects of Hydrophobicity and Counterion Size on Anionic Wormlike Micelle Growth

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Rheological measurements were performed to understand the effect of benzyltrimethyl ammonium bromide (BTAB) and NaBr on the growth of wormlike micelles formed by sodium oleate (NaOA). Both salts can make the micellar solution viscoelastic, and the rheological responses verify the formation of wormlike micelles. The viscoelastic solution follows the Maxwell model of a single stress relaxation mode in the low-frequency region. In comparison, the BTAB system exhibits stronger viscoelasticity than the NaBr system at constant salt concentration, but the critical overlapping concentration shows no significant difference; less BTAB can induce the solution to be more viscous than NaBr, but the viscosity maximum of the BTAB system is remarkably lower than that of NaBr at fixed NaOA content. The puzzling result is attributed to the effect of the composition on the packing parameter. In addition, it is shown that the zero-shear viscosity of the two salt systems decreases upon heating, following the Arrhenius mode well.

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This work was carried out with the financial support of grants from the National Natural Science Foundation of China and CAAC (No. 60939001 and No. 60979020).

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    Yixiu Han, Yongqiang Wei, Hang Wang, Yongjun Mei & Hong Zhou

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Han, Y., Wei, Y., Wang, H. et al. Contrasting the Effects of Hydrophobicity and Counterion Size on Anionic Wormlike Micelle Growth. J Surfact Deterg 16, 139–145 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11743-012-1364-x

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