We study the effect of salt content on the rheological properties of wormlike micelles formed from hexadecyltrimethylammonium bromide (CTAB) in presence of potassium bromide (KBr) and of cetylpyridinium chlorate (CPClO 3 ) in presence of sodium chlorate (ClO 3 Na). Upon increasing the salt concentration, at fixed surfactant concentration, we observe for both systems a maximum of the zero-shear viscosity η 0 . For salt concentrations less than that corresponding to the maximum of η 0 , the variation of η 0 with the surfactant concentration C can be described by a reptation model. Beyond the maximum, the scing laws obtained for η 0 (C) are characterized by values of the exponent much smaller than those predicted by the existing theoretical models. The results are qualitatively interpreted by a description based on a structural evolution upon increasing salt content from a system of entangled linear micelles to a multiconnected network. Measurements of the plateau modulus of CTAB solutions, as a function of KBr, give results supporting the above hypothesis
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