| Issue |
Europhys. Lett.
Volume 55, Number 6, September II 2001
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|---|---|---|
| Page(s) | 887 - 983 | |
| Section | Interdisciplinary physics and related areas of science and technology | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1209/epl/i2001-00359-2 | |
| Published online | 01 December 2003 | |
Ring-driven shear thickening in wormlike micelles?
1
Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Edinburgh,
Kings Buildings
Mayfield Road, Edinburgh EH9 3JZ, Scotland, UK
2
Laboratoire de Dynamiques des Fluides Complexes, UMR7506
Université Louis Pasteur - 4 rue Blaise Pascal, F-67070 Strasbourg,
France
Received:
11
May
2001
Accepted:
6
July
2001
The shear-thickening behaviour of wormlike micelles, at concentrations just below “overlap”, remains unexplained. In some cases, it has recently been confirmed that very slow relaxations must be present even in the quiescent state —for example, the shear-thickening properties can depend on earlier thermal cycling. We present a speculative scenario based on the presence, just below the (apparent) overlap threshold, of large rings whose linking and delinking kinetics control the shear-thickening process. Equilibration between rings and open chains in turn controls the slow relaxations.
PACS: 82.70.Uv – Surfactants, micellar solutions, vesicles, lamellae, amphiphilic systems (hydrophilic and hydrophobic systems) / 83.60.Pq – Time-dependent structure (thixotropy, rheopexy) / 83.10.Tv – Structural and phase changes
© EDP Sciences, 2001
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