Gemini surfactant behavior of conventional surfactant dodecyltrimethylammonium bromide with anionic azo dye Sunset Yellow in aqueous solutions

E Akpinar, N Uygur, G Topcu, OD Lavrentovich… - Journal of Molecular …, 2022 - Elsevier
In this study, the interaction of an anionic azo dye Sunset Yellow with conventional cationic
surfactant dodecyltrimethylammonium bromide (DTMABr) has been examined as a function …

Effect of the surfactant head-group size dependence of the dye-surfactant interactions on the lyotropic uniaxial to biaxial nematic phase transitions

E Akpinar, N Uygur, OD Ordu, D Reis… - Journal of Molecular …, 2021 - Elsevier
In the present study, the interactions of the anionic azo dye Sunset Yellow with
dodecylalkylammonium bromide (DAABr) surfactants in lyotropic mixtures have been …

A new interpretation of the optical interference figures observed in a lyotropic biaxial nematic phase for a ternary mixture of DTMABr, 1-DDeOH and H2O

DD Lüders, E Akpinar, NM Kimura - Journal of Molecular Liquids, 2022 - Elsevier
The lyotropic ternary mixture of dodecyltrimethylammonium bromide (DTMABr), 1-dodecanol
(DDeOH) and water (H 2 O) was studied by optical conoscopy and Abbe refractometer …

Non-aqueous lyotropic liquid crystalline phases of natural surfactant withania somnifera for antibacterial applications

H Chitme, KK Raina, RK Shukla - Inorganic Chemistry Communications, 2023 - Elsevier
Lyotropic liquid crystalline (LLC) phases are derived from a binary mixture of Withania
somnifera roots and ethylene glycol. Studied concentrations of Withania somnifera …

A chiral–racemic lyotropic chromonic liquid crystal system

JK Ando, PJ Collings - Soft Matter, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
The two main classes of liquid crystals are thermotropic (containing no solvent) and lyotropic
(containing solvent). Both of these classes possess the nematic phase, the most simple of …

Structure and local order of lyotropic cholesteric calamitic phases: The effect of the chiral molecule

OR Santos, D Reis, AG Oliveira-Filho… - Journal of Molecular …, 2022 - Elsevier
We investigate a lyotropic mixture presenting in the calamitic nematic phase (NC) and its
corresponding calamitic cholesteric phase (Ch C), where a small amount of the chiral agent …

Rotational viscosity of nematic lyotropic chromonic liquid crystals

JJ Yu, LF Chen, GY Li, YR Li, Y Huang, M Bake… - Journal of Molecular …, 2021 - Elsevier
Lyotropic chromonic liquid crystal has great application potential in the areas of the biology,
medicine, and optics due to its biocompatibility, nontoxicity, biodegradability and …

A new approach to the textural interpretation of magnetically aligned nematic and cholesteric lyotropic mesophases by using plate-λ accessory

DD Lüders, E Akpinar, MLG Pereira… - Phase …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Lyotropic liquid crystals are substances formed by anisotropic micelles. Their unit structure
change with the concentration and temperature and, as a consequence, the optical …

Properties of the uniaxial and biaxial nematic phases of the dodecyltrimethylammonium bromide/1-dodecanol/water lyotropic mixture including azo dye and drug …

E Akpinar, M Tabak, D Reis… - Phase Transitions, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Lyotropic nematic phase properties of novel mixtures of dodecyltrimethylammonium bromide
(DTMABr)/1-dodecanol (DDeOH)/water, doping with anionic azo dyes (amaranth and …

The wavelength-dependent optical transmission and birefringence of lyotropic nematic calamitic mesophase under a polarising microscope and its order parameter in …

AE Yavuz - Liquid Crystals, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
In the present study, the optical transmissions of lyotropic nematic calamitic mesophase
(NC) were measured depending on temperature for wavelengths of 440, 470, 510 and 694.3 …