Shear-Modulated Rates of Phase Transitions in Sphere-Forming Diblock Oligomer Lyotropic Liquid Crystals. 2021

Connor S Valentine, and Ashish Jayaraman, and Mahesh K Mahanthappa, and Lynn M Walker
Department of Chemical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213, United States.

Hydration of the amphiphilic diblock oligomer C16H33(CH2CH2O)20OH (C16E20) leads to concentration-dependent formation of micellar body-centered cubic (BCC) and Frank-Kasper A15 lyotropic liquid crystals (LLCs). Quiescent thermal annealing of aqueous LLCs comprising 56-59 wt % C16E20 at 25 °C after quenching from high temperatures established their ability to form short-lived BCC phases, which transform into long-lived, transient Frank-Kasper σ phases en route to equilibrium A15 morphologies on a time scale of months. Here, the frequency and magnitude of applied oscillatory shear show the potential to either dynamically stabilize the metastable BCC phase at low frequencies or increase the rate of formation of the A15 to minutes at high frequencies. Time-resolved synchrotron small-angle X-ray scattering (TR-SAXS) provides in situ characterization of the structures during shear and thermal processing. This work shows that the LLC morphology and order-order phase transformation rates can be controlled by tuning the shear strain amplitude and frequency.

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