Because of its unique properties, water drives many natural and biological processes. While
a detailed understanding of its precise role is still being unravelled, it is clear that the …

We report an improved synthesis of colloidal gold nanorods (NRs) by using aromatic
additives that reduce the concentration of hexadecyltrimethylammonium bromide surfactant …

Despite the considerable advances of molecular-thermodynamic theory of micelle growth,
agreement between theory and experiment has been achieved only in isolated cases. A …

Exciting characteristic features of nanomaterials in contrast to their bulk phase require shape
control of morphologies at the nanometer scale. Surfactants, a unique class of surface active …

Cationic surfactants having long (C22) mono-unsaturated tails were studied in aqueous
solutions containing salt using steady and dynamic rheology. The surfactant erucyl bis …

A small-angle neutron scattering (SANS) diffractometer has been recently installed at the
guide hall of the Dhruva reactor at Trombay. The diffractometer uses a BeO filter as the …

Small-angle neutron scattering (SANS) and rheology are used to probe the wormlike
micelles formed in mixtures of a cationic (cetyl trimethylammonium tosylate, CTAT) and an …

The addition of low concentrations of the hydrotropic salt p-toluidine hydrochloride (PTHC)
to solutions of the anionic surfactant sodium dodecyl sulfate (SDS) promotes the transition …

Hypothesis The current mechanism of surfactant enhanced oil recovery (EOR) mainly relies
on forming middle-phase microemulsions to get ultra-low oil-water interfacial tension …

In this manuscript we report pH induced micellar transition in aqueous solution of
cetyltrimethylammonium bromide (CTAB) in the presence of three weakly polar aromatic …