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Reversible Formatio...
Reversible Formation of Thermoresponsive Binary Particle Gels with Tunable Structural and Mechanical Properties
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- Immink, Jasper (author)
- Lund University,Lunds universitet,Fysikalisk kemi,Enheten för fysikalisk och teoretisk kemi,Kemiska institutionen,Institutioner vid LTH,Lunds Tekniska Högskola,Physical Chemistry,Physical and theoretical chemistry,Department of Chemistry,Departments at LTH,Faculty of Engineering, LTH
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- Maris, Erik (author)
- Utrecht University
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- Crassous, Jérôme (author)
- RWTH Aachen University
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- Stenhammar, Joakim (author)
- Lund University,Lunds universitet,Fysikalisk kemi,Enheten för fysikalisk och teoretisk kemi,Kemiska institutionen,Institutioner vid LTH,Lunds Tekniska Högskola,Physical Chemistry,Physical and theoretical chemistry,Department of Chemistry,Departments at LTH,Faculty of Engineering, LTH
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- Schurtenberger, Peter (author)
- Lund University,Lunds universitet,Fysikalisk kemi,Enheten för fysikalisk och teoretisk kemi,Kemiska institutionen,Institutioner vid LTH,Lunds Tekniska Högskola,Physical Chemistry,Physical and theoretical chemistry,Department of Chemistry,Departments at LTH,Faculty of Engineering, LTH
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- 2019-02-14
- 2019
- English.
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In: ACS Nano. - : American Chemical Society (ACS). - 1936-0851 .- 1936-086X.
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- We investigate the collective behavior of suspended thermoresponsive microgels that expel solvent and subsequently decrease in size upon heating. Using a binary mixture of differently thermoresponsive microgels, we demonstrate how distinctly different gel structures form, depending on the heating profile used. Confocal laser scanning microscopy (CLSM) imaging shows that slow heating ramps yield a core–shell network through sequential gelation, while fast heating ramps yield a random binary network through homogelation. Here, secondary particles are shown to aggregate in a monolayer fashion upon the first gel, which can be qualitatively reproduced through Brownian dynamics simulations using a model based on a temperature-dependent interaction potential incorporating steric repulsion and van der Waals attraction. Through oscillatory rheology it is shown that secondary microgel deposition enhances the structural integrity of the previously formed single species gel, and the final structure exhibits higher elastic and loss moduli than its compositionally identical homogelled counterpart. Furthermore, we demonstrate that aging processes in the scaffold before secondary microgel deposition govern the final structural properties of the bigel, which allows a detailed control over these properties. Our results thus demonstrate how the temperature profile can be used to finely control the structural and mechanical properties of these highly tunable materials.
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- NATURVETENSKAP -- Kemi -- Fysikalisk kemi (hsv//swe)
- NATURAL SCIENCES -- Chemical Sciences -- Physical Chemistry (hsv//eng)
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