Synthesis and Application of the Three-Component Lyotropic Liquid Crystal

This paper focused on synthesizing the surfactant lyotropic liquid crystals (LLCs) through mixing the coconut diethanol amide (6501), primary alcobol ethoxylate (AEO9) and water. The LLCs phases formed in the ternary system are thoroughly investigated by polarized optical microscopy (POM). The obtained LLCs were characterized by XRD and SEM in order to analysis the texture, structure and the transformation. In addition, the LLCs have been applied in the preparation of TiO2 nanoparticles in our research. The obtained TiO2 powder were characterized by XRD and SEM, more importantly, the results showed that the LLCs are effective in the process of synthesizing TiO2 nanoparticles.