Viscoelastic properties of aqueous anionic surfactant (Potassium oleate) solutionsстатья
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Аннотация:The dependence of the viscosity of potassium oleate salt-containing solutions on the surfactant concentration is studied. The potassium oleate concentration corresponding to the formation of semidilute solution of cylindrical micelles is determined. It is shown that, in the semidilute regime, one can distinguish two regions characterized by different exponential dependences of the viscosity on the surfactant concentration. The first region corresponds to unbreakable micelle chains that have no time to be destroyed during the characteristic time of reptation, whereas the second region corresponds to "living chains" whose lifetime is shorter than the characteristic time of reptation. In the second region, rheological properties of semidilute potassium oleate solutions are adequately described by the Maxwell model with a single relaxation time.