L3 Sponge phase - effects of confinement and shear
The sponge, or L3, phase consists of interconnected networks of water and solvent channels forming between bilayers. While locally these phases may be considered as bilayers but the correlations, which distinguish the lamellar L phase rapidly, disappear into the bulk solution. Typically the bulk sponge has low viscosity and are isotropic, and Lalpha, is a anisotropic viscous lamellar. Sufficient shear has been shown to produce a bulk phase transition from L3 to the lamellar L in a Couette geometry rheometer with SANS. Here we would aim to simplify the study of the structure of the sponge phase and its relationship to shear in which very thin layers of the sponge phase are sheared under confinement between two parallel surfaces.
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Christopher J. Garvey; H Boyd; Juan Francisco; GUTFREUND Philipp and SOTRES Javier. (2021). L3 Sponge phase - effects of confinement and shear. Institut Laue-Langevin (ILL) doi:10.5291/ILL-DATA.9-10-1657
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