The formulation of new products is time and resource intensive and adds significant cost to developing new business opportunities.  In recent years, there has been a drive to accelerate development of new products by the use of modeling tools which are predictive of product performance.  A key issue is how to validate an advanced modeling approach which does not have an independent means for verifying results.  Here we present a collaboration between the Larson group at the University of Michigan and the Beaucage group at the University of Cincinnati to validate a surfactant entangled-micelle rheology model using Small Angle Neutron Scattering; which was accessed through the User Facilities at Oak Ridge National Labs.  Work to extend SANS measurements into higher concentration regimes will also be presented.  The synergy of this University-Industry-National Lab collaboration and the insights it provided will be presented.

Validation of a surfactant micelle rheology model using SANS and other analytical techniques

2019 Spring National Meeting

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