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CPP: Fachverband Chemische Physik und Polymerphysik
CPP 16: Poster: Colloids and Complex Liquids
CPP 16.10: Poster
Tuesday, March 27, 2012, 18:15–20:45, Poster A
Dynamics in disconnected lamellar phases — •Stefan Wellert1, Matthias Karg2, Lukasz Szymanski3, and Cosima Stubenrauch3 — 1TU Berlin, Str.d. 17.Juni 124, 10623 Berlin, Germany — 2University of Bayreuth, Universitätsstrasse 30, 95440 Bayreuth, Germany — 3University of Stuttgart, Pfaffenwaldring 35, 70569 Stuttgart, Germany
This contribution discusses the results of a neutron spin-echo (NSE) experiment addressing the dynamics in disconnected lamellar phases. (Pseudo)binary water-CiEj-type surfactant systems were investigated. The combination of a surfactant forming a continuous lamellar phase extending to low surfactant concentrations with a surfactant forming a lamellar phase only at high concentrations results in a disconnected lamellar phase. Regarding the stabilization of the lamellar phase in the dilute and the concentrated regime, respectively, it is known that the dilute lamellar phases, where the interlamellar distances are larger than the membrane thickness, are stabilized by membrane undulations. In the case of the concentrated lamellar phases, attractive van der Waals and repulsive steric forces are the stabilizing mechanisms. It was shown that the disconnection only takes place if the distance between two bilayers is similar to the thickness of the bilayers and it was argued that the disconnection is tuneable by the rigidity of the monolayer. In this combined small angle neutron scattering and NSE experiment we discuss the influence of the structure factor on the dynamics. By applying the theoretical approach of Zilman and Granek we determine the bending elasticity constants.