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Nonlinear rheology of wormlike micelles

Spenley, N. A., Cates, M. E., McLeish, T. C. B.·1993·Physical Review Letters
DOI 10.1103/physrevlett.71.939
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Certain viscoelastic surfactant solutions show unusual nonlinear rheology: In steady shear, the shear stress saturates to a constant value while the first normal stess increases roughly linearly with shear rate over several decades. Here we explain this behavior in terms of the ``reptation-reaction'' model for the dynamics of reversibly breakable, polymerlike micelles. The constitutive equation for this model leads to a flow instability of shear-banding type. The limiting shear stress is predicted to be ${\mathrm{\ensuremath{\sigma}}}^{\mathrm{*}}$=0.67${\mathit{G}}_{0}$ (with ${\mathit{G}}_{0}$ the plateau modulus), in quantitative agreement with experiment.

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Authors
Spenley, N. A., Cates, M. E., & McLeish, T. C. B.
Venue
Physical Review Letters
Publisher
American Physical Society (APS)
Published
1993-08-09
Volume
71
Issue
6
Pages
939-942
ISSN
0031-9007 (ISSN-L)
DOI
10.1103/physrevlett.71.939
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References
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journal article
Language
en
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