Smart wormlike micelles: design, characteristics and applications.
主要譯著者：Yujun Feng, Zonglin Chu, Cecile A. Dreiss.
出版機構：Springer
出版日期：2015
標準書號：ISBN: 978-3-662-45949-2 (Print) 978-3-662-45950-8 (Online)年
This
Brief provides an up-to-date overview of smart surfactants and describes a
broad spectrum of triggers that induce the formation of wormlike micelles or
reversibly tune the morphology of surfactant aggregates from wormlike micelles
to another state, or vice versa. Combining the fields of chemistry, physics,
polymer science, and nanotechnology, its primary focus is on the design,
formulation, and processing of intelligent viscoelastic surfactant solutions,
covering the scientific principles governing responsiveness to one or more
particular triggers, down to the end-use-driven functions. The first chapter
explains why and how surfactants self-assemble into viscoelastic wormlike
micellar solutions reminiscent of polymer solutions, while the following
chapters show how the response to a given trigger translates into macroscopic
rheological changes, including temperature, light, pH, CO2, redox, hydrocarbon,
etc. The last chapter demonstrates the applications of these viscoelastic
assemblies in oil and gas production, drag reduction, biomaterials, cleaning
processes, electrorheological and photorheological fluids. Comments and
perspectives are provided at the end to conclude this Brief.
This
Brief is aimed at chemists, physicists, chemical engineers and nano-scientists
who are involved in self-assemblies and applications of surfactants, as well as
graduates in physical chemistry.