Viscoelastic behavior of surfactants worm-like micellar solution in the presence of alkanolamide
Dharmesh Varade1, Suraj Chandra Sharma, Kenji Aramaki
1Graduate School of Environment and Information Sciences, Yokohama National University, 79-7 Tokiwadai, Hodogaya-ku, Yokohama 240-8501, Japan.
Abstract:
A study of the phase and rheological behavior of anionic surfactant sodium dodecyl trioxyethylene sulfate (SDES) and nonionic polyoxyethylene sorbitan monooleate (Tween-80) with alkanoyl-N-methylethanolamide (C(12), NMEA-12; and C(16), NMEA-16) in aqueous system is presented. Upon addition of NMEA to the semi-dilute solution of SDES or Tween-80, induces micellar growth leading to the formation of a gel-like highly viscoelastic solution in the maximum viscosity region. These solutions obey the Maxwell model of a viscoelastic fluid. It was observed from rheological measurements that NMEA-16 is more effective than NMEA-12 to induce the micellar growth of surfactants. The relationship between the marked changes in viscosity with surfactant-cosurfactant mixing ratio based on the experimental observations is discussed.
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