STUDIES ON THE PHASE DIAGRAM OF THE SURFACTANT/1-PENTANOL / WATER TERNARY SYSTEM II: THE LIQUID CRYSTALLINE PHASE

ABSTRACT

The phase behavior of liquid crystalline in the ternary system of dodecyl dimethyl ammonium hydroxyl propyl sulfonate(DDAHPS)/1pentanol(C5HnOH) / water deuteron(D₂O) has been investigated by polarizing optical microscopy, ²H NMR spectroscopy methods. The results indicate that two kinds of liquid crystals (the lamellar, and the hexagonal) exist in the liquid crystalline phase region. In this paper, we also use the polarized Raman spectroscopy method to measure the values of the order/ disorder parameters and the values of the environment polarity parameters for the samples selected from the liquid crystalline phase region, and compare these two parameters of the samples with those of solid state DDAHPS and liquid state pentan-l-ol.