Predicting the effect of additives on wormlike micelle and liquid crystal formation and rheology with phase inversion phenomena

F Choi, R Chen, EJ Acosta - Journal of colloid and interface science, 2020 - Elsevier
Hypothesis Surfactant-based viscoelastic fluids are used in consumer products such as
body wash, cosmetics, and in hydraulic fracturing fluids to suspend proppant, among others …

Effect of additives on surfactant micelle shape transformation: rheology and molecular dynamics studies

Q Liu, X Ji, S Wang, W Zou, J Li, D Lv… - The Journal of …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Several additives (NaSal, 1SHNC, and 2SHNC) were added into aqueous solutions of a
cationic surfactant, 3-tetradecyloxy-2-hydroxy-propyl trimethyl ammonium bromide …

Molecular Dynamics Simulations and Density Functional Theory on Unraveling Photoresponsive Behavior of Wormlike Micelles Constructed by 12-2-12· 2Br–and …

Q Chen, W Liu, H Liu, X Huang, Y Shang, H Liu - Langmuir, 2020 - ACS Publications
Photoresponsive systems with controllable self-assembly morphologies and adjustable
rheological properties have attracted widespread interest by researchers in the past few …

Molecular dynamics simulations and quantitative calculations on photo-responsive behavior of wormlike micelles constructed by gemini surfactant 12–3-12· 2Br− and …

Q Chen, W Liu, Z Ye, Y Shang, H Liu - Colloids and Surfaces A …, 2022 - Elsevier
Photo-responsive wormlike micelles constructed by photo-sensitive molecules and
surfactants have attracted widespread attention from researchers. The subtle structural …

Non-disruptive mixing of cyclodextrins and wormlike micelles in the non-dilute regime

AS Luviano, S Figueroa-Gerstenmaier… - Journal of Molecular …, 2023 - Elsevier
The encapsulation of hydrophobic molecules for different applications is of great importance,
especially for pharmaceutical science, as such molecules can be used as carriers of other …

Scission energy and topology of micelles controlled by the molecular structure of additives

T Mandal - Soft Matter, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
We employ coarse-grained (CG) molecular dynamics simulations (MD) to investigate the
effects of the molecular structure of additives on the scission energy and morphology of …

Stretch and breakage of wormlike micelles under uniaxial strain: A simulation study and comparison with experimental results

T Mandal, RG Larson - Langmuir, 2018 - ACS Publications
We use coarse-grained (CG) molecular dynamics simulations to determine the effect of
uniaxial strain on the stress, scission stress, and scission energy of solutions of wormlike …

New insight into the transition mechanism of pH-tunable wormlike micelles based on experiments and DPD simulation

J Xu, H Xie, H Zhang, H Xu, L Fang, W Zhao… - Colloids and Surfaces A …, 2019 - Elsevier
A new gemimi-like surfactant (named C 14-N 6-C 14) formed by a mixed system of itaconic
acid tetradecyl ester (C 14) and 1, 6-hexamethylenediamine (N 6) at a molar ratio of 2: 1 was …

Investigation of Active–Inactive Material Interdigitated Aggregates Formed by Wormlike Micelles and Cellulose Nanofiber

M Zhao, Z Gao, C Dai, Y Zhang, X Sun… - The Journal of …, 2018 - ACS Publications
In this work, a novel active–inactive material interdigitated aggregates (AIMIAs) structure
was constructed by self-assembled wormlike micelles (WLMs) and one-dimensional …

Experiments and simulations on wormlike micelles: photo-responsive behavior and applications

Q Chen - 2021 - theses.hal.science
Responsive soft materials have been an active research topic for decades. Among the
different types of materials photo-responsive wormlike micelle systems constructed by …