Shear-induced ordering of micellar arrays in the presence of single-walled carbon nanotubes.
Single-walled carbon nanotubes were found to induce elongation and alignment of surfactant micelles in thin films under the action of shear, leading to the formation of ordered arrays over micron lengths.
Department of Chemical Engineering, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev and the Ilse Katz Institute for Nanoscale Science and Technology, Beer-Sheva 84105, Israel.
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