From bilayers to micelles in a dilute surfactant system: a phase with a perforated bilayer network
The quaternary system comprising sodium dodecyl sulfate/water/pentanol/dodecane has been studied at high oil content and at two different water-to-surfactant ratios. Of particular interest is a highly flow birefringent, isotropic fluid phase, which occupies an island in the pseudo-ternary phase diagrams between the L2 phase and the L3 phase and which is in close proximity to
