Abstract

Laili C.R, Doreen N. S and Hamdan S.

DOI : http://dx.doi.org/10.13005/ojc/340112

A preliminary study to examine the liquid crystalline region formed by surfactant, DTAB and AOT, individually and mixed, in the presence of various chain length alcohols was carried out. Several ternary phase equilibrium were constructed. Results showed that all the investigated systems apart from forming lyotropic liquid crystalline structure were also able to form self-assembled aggregates such as micelle and reversed micelles. From the optical pattern observation, it was observed that two types of liquid crystalline were formed namely hexagonal and lamellar.

Phase Diagram; Optical Pattern; Surfactants

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