TY - JOUR
T1 - Turning up the heat on wormlike micelles with a hydrotopic salt in microfluidics
AU - Cardiel, Joshua J.
AU - Zhao, Ya
AU - De La Iglesia, Pablo
AU - Pozzo, Lilo D.
AU - Shen, Amy Q.
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Copyright 2015 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2014/11/14
Y1 - 2014/11/14
N2 - In equilibrium, wormlike micelles can transition from entangled to branched structures with increasing surfactant concentrations and ionic strength. Under flow conditions, structural transition of micellar solutions can follow very different trajectories. In this study we consider the flow of a semi-dilute wormlike micellar solution through an array of microposts, with focus on its rheological and microstructural evolutions. Specifically, the micellar solution (precursor) contains cationic surfactant cetyltrimethylammonium bromide (CTAB) and hydrotropic organic salt 3-hydroxynaphthalene-2-carboxylate (SHNC). We report the formation of a flow induced structured phase (FISP), with entangled, branched, and multi-connected micellar bundles, evidenced by electron microscopy and small-angle neutron scattering (SANS). By integrating gold-etched microheaters with the micropost design in a microfluidic device, we investigate the localized temperature effect on both the precursor and FISP, with complementary investigations from SANS. We observe that the FISP does not completely disintegrate at high temperatures, whereas, the precursor exhibits shortening of wormlike micelles as temperature increases. We also correlate the microstructure of both FISP and precursor with two point passive microrheology and bulk rheology characterizations. This journal is
AB - In equilibrium, wormlike micelles can transition from entangled to branched structures with increasing surfactant concentrations and ionic strength. Under flow conditions, structural transition of micellar solutions can follow very different trajectories. In this study we consider the flow of a semi-dilute wormlike micellar solution through an array of microposts, with focus on its rheological and microstructural evolutions. Specifically, the micellar solution (precursor) contains cationic surfactant cetyltrimethylammonium bromide (CTAB) and hydrotropic organic salt 3-hydroxynaphthalene-2-carboxylate (SHNC). We report the formation of a flow induced structured phase (FISP), with entangled, branched, and multi-connected micellar bundles, evidenced by electron microscopy and small-angle neutron scattering (SANS). By integrating gold-etched microheaters with the micropost design in a microfluidic device, we investigate the localized temperature effect on both the precursor and FISP, with complementary investigations from SANS. We observe that the FISP does not completely disintegrate at high temperatures, whereas, the precursor exhibits shortening of wormlike micelles as temperature increases. We also correlate the microstructure of both FISP and precursor with two point passive microrheology and bulk rheology characterizations. This journal is
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U2 - 10.1039/c4sm01920b
DO - 10.1039/c4sm01920b
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84908587521
SN - 1744-683X
VL - 10
SP - 9300
EP - 9312
JO - Soft Matter
JF - Soft Matter
IS - 46
ER -