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Soft Matter. 2016 Jan 07;12(1):165-70. doi: 10.1039/c5sm01625h.

A master dynamic flow diagram for the shear thickening transition in micellar solutions.

Soft matter

F Bautista, N Tepale, V V A Fernández, G Landázuri, E Hernández, E R Macías, J F A Soltero, J I Escalante, O Manero, J E Puig

Affiliations

  1. Departamentos de Física, Universidad de Guadalajara, Boul. M. García Barragán #1451, Guadalajara, Jal. 44430, Mexico.
  2. Departamento de Ingeniería Química, Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, Ave. San Claudio y 18 Sur, Puebla, Pue. 72000, Mexico.
  3. Departamento de Ciencias Tecnológicas, Universidad de Guadalajara, Av. Universidad #1115, Ocotlán, Jal. 47820, Mexico.
  4. Departamento de Ingeniería Química, Universidad de Guadalajara, Boul. M. García Barragán #1451, Guadalajara, Jal. 44430, Mexico. [email protected] [email protected].
  5. Departamento de Química, Universidad de Guadalajara, Boul. M. García Barragán #1451, Guadalajara, Jal. 44430, Mexico.
  6. Instituto de Investigación en Materiales, Universidad Nacioal Autónoma de Mexico, Apdo. Postal 70-360, Mexico D.F. 04510, Mexico.

PMID: 26448618 DOI: 10.1039/c5sm01625h

Abstract

The shear thickening behavior of dilute micellar solutions of hexadecyltrimethylammonium-type surfactants with different counterions (tosylate, 3- and 4-fluorobenzoate, vinylbenzoate and salicylate) and of n-alkyltetradecylammonium bromide (CnTAB), with n = 14, 16 and 18, is examined here. These solutions undergo a shear thickening transition due to the formation of shear-induced structures (SISs) in the shear range studied. Here we report a relationship between the shear thickening intensity and the differences in the hydrophobicity of counterions according to the Hofmeister-like anion series, which leads to a master flow diagram. This master flow diagram is produced by plotting a normalized shear thickening intensity (Iη - 1)/(Imax - 1) versus CD/CD,max, where Iη is the shear-thickening intensity, defined as the largest viscosity obtained in the shear-thickening transition (STT) at a given surfactant concentration CD divided by the Newtonian viscosity η0, and Imax is the largest intensity value obtained in the STT at a surfactant concentration CD,max. The master flow diagram is built using several cetyltrimethylammonium-type surfactants with different counterions, according to a Hofmeister-like series, and by n-alkyltetradecylammonium bromide surfactants with different alkyl chain lengths.

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