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Structural Transition in the Isotropic Phase of the C12EO6/H2O Lyotropic Mixture: A Rheological Investigation

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We study the structural changes occurring in the isotropic phase of the C12EO6/H2O lyotropic mixture (up to 35% surfactant weight concentration) upon increasing the concentration and temperature, from small individual micelles to an entangled network which subsequently becomes connected. High-frequency (up to w = 6 × 10^4 rad/s) rheological measurements give us access to the viscoelastic relaxation spectrum, which can be well described by the sum of two Maxwell models with very different temperature behaviors: the slower one (t1~ 10^-4 s) is probably due to reptation, and its associated viscosity first increases with temperature (micellar growth) and then decreases after reaching a maximum (appearance of connections). The fast mechanism (t2~10^-6 s) remains practically unchanged in temperature and can be related to the relaxation of local micellar order, as observed at higher concentration in a previous investigation. This interpretation is confirmed by additional measurements in aqueous mixtures of the related surfactant C12EO8 (which forms smaller micelles), where only the fast mechanism-related to local order-is detected.
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hal-00015646 , version 1 (12-12-2005)

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Doru Constantin, Eric Freyssingeas, Jean-François Palierne, Patrick Oswald. Structural Transition in the Isotropic Phase of the C12EO6/H2O Lyotropic Mixture: A Rheological Investigation. Langmuir, 2003, 19, pp.2554. ⟨10.1021/la026595o⟩. ⟨hal-00015646⟩
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