Filippelli, L.Medronho, B.Rossi, C. O.Miguel, M. G.Olsson, U.2015-12-022015-12-0220091542-1406http://hdl.handle.net/10400.1/7272Nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy and rheological analysis have been used to investigate the stability of mechanically induced tri-ethylene-glycol-mono-n-decyl-ether (C(10)E(3))/deuterium oxide (D(2)O) multi-lamellar vesicles (MLVs) and the transition from MLVs to planar lamellae. It was found that MLVs prepared by vortex stirring, relax back to the lamellar phase in a few hours while the relaxation of the shear induced MLVs takes days. Pulsed gradient spin echo and water self-diffusion coefficient experiments, revealed that the MLVs texture, obtained by vortex stirring, is composed of large size structures. These data indicate that the kinetics of lamellar re-formation depend on the MLVs number density.engjournal articlehttps://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15421400802714114