Swelling and shear viscosity of stimuli-responsive colloidal systems
In this review, we describe the recent progress in the synthesis of responsive micro/nanogels and their swelling properties, with specific focus on the shear viscosity and the scaling relationship of stimuli-responsive micro/nanogel systems. We highlight the recent progress in the scaling models tha...
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| Published in | Soft matter Vol. 9; no. 22; pp. 5319 - 5335 |
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| Main Authors | , , |
| Format | Journal Article |
| Language | English |
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01.01.2013
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| Summary: | In this review, we describe the recent progress in the synthesis of responsive micro/nanogels and their swelling properties, with specific focus on the shear viscosity and the scaling relationship of stimuli-responsive micro/nanogel systems. We highlight the recent progress in the scaling models that provide important information on the swelling and rheological properties of responsive micro/nanogels, which are especially relevant in the applications of these soft nanostructures. Future perspectives on the applications of soft nanostructures are outlined and discussed.
In this review, we describe the recent progress in the synthesis of responsive micro/nanogels and their swelling properties, with specific focus on the shear viscosity and the scaling relationship of stimuli-responsive micro/nanogel systems. |
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| Bibliography: | Nathan Grishkewich is currently pursuing a Bachelor's degree in Chemical Engineering at the University of Waterloo. In 2010 he joined Tam's group and has mainly focused on the preparation of tailor-made thermoresponsive polymers and atom transfer radical polymerization. His research is also directed towards the interactions within polymersurfactant systems as well as latex based surface coatings. Kam Chiu Tam is a Professor and University Research Chair at the Department of Chemical Engineering at the Waterloo Institute for Nanotechnology (WIN), University of Waterloo (UW), Canada. He received his PhD from the Department of Chemical Engineering, Monash University, Australia in 1991. Following a postdoctoral fellowship at McMaster University, he joined Nanyang Technological University in 1992 as a Lecturer and was promoted to Professor in 2004. He was a fellow in the Chemical and Pharmaceutical Engineering programme under the SingaporeMIT Alliance. His research interests focus on functional colloids and renewable nanomaterials for chemical and biomedical applications. Zhaoling Yao obtained her Master's Degree in Polymer Chemistry from McMaster University in 2004. After working in a pharmaceutical company for 2 years, she started her PhD program in the Department of Chemical Engineering at the Waterloo Institute for Nanotechnology, University of Waterloo and received her PhD in 2011. Her research interests focus on the polymer modification of nanomaterials including fullerenes, carbon nanotubes, and nanocrystalline cellulose. |
| ISSN: | 1744-683X 1744-6848 |
| DOI: | 10.1039/c3sm50374g |