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dc.contributor.authorBandyopadhyay, Ranjini-
dc.contributor.authorSood, A.K.-
dc.date.accessioned2012-06-09T09:26:43Z-
dc.date.available2012-06-09T09:26:43Z-
dc.date.issued2005-
dc.identifier.citationJournal of Colloid and Interface Science, 2005, Vol.283, p585–591en
dc.identifier.issn0021-9797-
dc.identifier.issn1095-7103 (Online)-
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2289/4647-
dc.descriptionRestricted Access.en
dc.description.abstractThe effects of the addition of sub-micrometer sized colloidal silica spheres on the linear and nonlinear rheology of semi-dilute solutions of a viscoelastic gel are studied. For a 1.4 wt.% solution of the surfactant CTAT, a peak in the zero shear rate viscosity $\eta_{\circ}$ is observed at approximately equal weight percents of silica and CTAT. This peak shifts to lower silica concentrations on increasing either the CTAT concentration or the surface charge on silica and disappears when the CTAT concentration is increased to 2.6wt%. The increases in $\eta_{\circ}$ and the high frequency plateau modulus G$_{\circ}$ on the introduction of SiO$_{2}$ are explained by considering the increasingly entangled wormlike micelles that are formed due to the enhanced screening of the electrostatic interactions. The observed decrease in the values of G$_{\circ}$ and $\eta_{\circ}$ at higher concentrations of silica particles is explained in terms of the formation of surfactant bilayers due to the adsorption of the positively charged cetyl trimethylammonium to the negatively charged silica.en
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherElsevier B.V.en
dc.relation.urihttp://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0409435en
dc.rights2005 Elsevier B.V.en
dc.titleEffect of silica colloids on the rheology of viscoelastic gels formed by the surfactant cetyl trimethylammonium tosylateen
dc.typeArticleen
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