ABSTRACT
The basic factors governing the rheological properties of a network are based on the concept of a tube. Each worm-like micelle, in a network, is conceived to be trapped inside a tube formed by the other micelles in the network. The liquid crystalline phases appeared to be nematic phases. The appearance of two viscoelastic phases in the neighborhood of liquid crystalline phases suggested that the viscoelastic phases could be regarded as charge-induced isotropic phases, which normally have higher viscosity, of the liquid crystalline phase. There is another way to look at the cationic-anionic surfactant complexes that could be the beginning of an alternate, unified view toward the supramolecular structures. The relative ratio controls the supramolecular structures formed, namely vesicles, liquid crystals, and worm-like micelles. The comment by Fuhrhop J.-H. and Helfrich W. that in cetyltrimethyl ammonium bromide-sodium salicylate systems (SS) the nuclear magnetic resonance line widths of SS were large.
