Shear rheology and porous media flow of wormlike micelle solutions formed by mixtures of surfactants of opposite charge |
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Authors: | Rojas Mario R Müller Alejandro J Sáez A Eduardo |
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Affiliation: | aGrupo de Polímeros USB, Departamento de Ciencias de los Materiales, Universidad Simón Bolívar, Apartado 89000, Caracas 1080-A, Venezuela;bDepartment of Chemical and Environmental Engineering, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721, USA |
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Abstract: | The rheology of solutions of wormlike micelles formed by oppositely charged surfactant mixtures (cationic cetyl trimethylammonium p-toluene sulfonate, CTAT, and anionic sodium dodecyl sulfate, SDS), in the dilute and semi-dilute regimes, were studied under simple shear and porous media flows. Aqueous mixtures of CTAT and SDS formed homogeneous solutions for SDS/CTAT molar ratios below 0.12. Solutions of mixtures exhibited a strong synergistic effect in shear viscosity, especially in the semi-dilute regime with respect to wormlike micelles, reaching a four order of magnitude increase in the zero-shear rate viscosity for solutions with 20 mM CTAT. Oscillatory shear results demonstrated that the microstructure of CTAT wormlike micelles is sensitive to SDS addition. The cross-over relaxation times of wormlike micelles of 20 mM CTAT solutions increased by three orders of magnitude with the addition of up to 2 mM of SDS, and the solutions became increasingly elastic. The shear thickening process observed in shear rheology became more pronounced in porous media flow due to the formation of stronger cooperative structures induced by the extensional component of the flow. |
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Keywords: | CTAT SDS Wormlike micelles Surfactant mixtures |
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