Interfacial shear rheology of mixed polyelectrolyte-surfactant layers

We have studied the shear rheology of mixed surface layers containing polyelectrolytes and surfactants of opposite charges. The layers containing rigid polyelectrolytes are solidlike and can even exhibit brittle behavior. More flexible polyelectrolytes lead to more viscoelastic layers and very flexi...

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Veröffentlicht in:Langmuir : the ACS journal of surfaces and colloids. - 1992. - 25(2009), 20 vom: 20. Okt., Seite 12201-7
1. Verfasser: Espinosa, Gabriel (VerfasserIn)
Weitere Verfasser: Langevin, Dominique
Format: Online-Aufsatz
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: 2009
Zugriff auf das übergeordnete Werk:Langmuir : the ACS journal of surfaces and colloids
Schlagworte:Journal Article
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Zusammenfassung:We have studied the shear rheology of mixed surface layers containing polyelectrolytes and surfactants of opposite charges. The layers containing rigid polyelectrolytes are solidlike and can even exhibit brittle behavior. More flexible polyelectrolytes lead to more viscoelastic layers and very flexible ones to purely viscous layers. A relaxation time on the order of tens of seconds was found with the less flexible polymers. In the DNA case, it was possible to show that this relaxation time decreases with the inverse shear rate, as in three-dimensional soft solids. These short times suggest that the polymer chains might not be entangled between the surface layers containing neutral polymers
Beschreibung:Date Completed 25.01.2010
Date Revised 13.10.2009
published: Print
Citation Status PubMed-not-MEDLINE
ISSN:1520-5827
DOI:10.1021/la901730f