Abstract
Shear orientation of a lyotropic lamellar liquid crystalline phase of tetra ethyleneglycol mono dodecylether, C12A4 in water was studied by combined rheo-small-angle light scattering. Shear thinning was observed with a sample of 500 μm thickness. The scattering patterns showed that domains were aligned and stretched in flow direction. Shear thinning was also observed with a thinner sample, but caused a strong change in light-scattering pattern. A maximum of scattering intensity was observed at finite scattering vector and shifted to a higher scattering vector with increasing shear stress. This observation can be explained by a fragmentation of domains at high shear stress and is supported by a mosaic texture observed in optical microscopy.
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Lauger, J., Linemann, R. & Richtering, W. Shear orientation of a lamellar lyotropic liquid crystal. Rheola Acta 34, 132–136 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00398432
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00398432