Anisotropic responsive microgels with tuneable shape and interactions
Crassous, Jerome LU ; Mihut, Adriana LU ; Månsson, Linda LU and Schurtenberger, Peter LU
(2015)
In Nanoscale
7(38).
p.15971-15982
- Abstract
- Highly monodisperse polystyrene/poly(N-isopropylmethacrylamide) (PS-PNIPMAM) core-shell composite microgels were synthesized and further nanoengineered in either ellipsoidal, faceted or bowl-shaped particles. Beside their anisotropy in shape, the microgel design enables an exquisite control of the particle conformation, size and interactions from swollen and hydrophilic to collapsed and hydrophobic using temperature as an external control variable. The post-processing procedures and the characterization of the different particles are first presented. Their potential as model systems for the investigation of the effects of anisotropic shape and interactions on the phase behavior is further demonstrated. Finally, the self-assembly of... (More)
- Highly monodisperse polystyrene/poly(N-isopropylmethacrylamide) (PS-PNIPMAM) core-shell composite microgels were synthesized and further nanoengineered in either ellipsoidal, faceted or bowl-shaped particles. Beside their anisotropy in shape, the microgel design enables an exquisite control of the particle conformation, size and interactions from swollen and hydrophilic to collapsed and hydrophobic using temperature as an external control variable. The post-processing procedures and the characterization of the different particles are first presented. Their potential as model systems for the investigation of the effects of anisotropic shape and interactions on the phase behavior is further demonstrated. Finally, the self-assembly of bowl-shaped composite microgel particles is discussed, where the temperature and an external AC electric field are employed to control the interactions from repulsive to attractive and from soft repulsive to dipolar, respectively. (Less)
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- Crassous, Jerome
LU
; Mihut, Adriana
LU
; Månsson, Linda
LU
and Schurtenberger, Peter
LU
- organization
- publishing date
- 2015
- type
- Contribution to journal
- publication status
- published
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- Nanoscale
- volume
- 7
- issue
- 38
- pages
- 15971 - 15982
- publisher
- Royal Society of Chemistry
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- pmid:26367504
- wos:000361834100050
- scopus:84942693796
- pmid:26367504
- ISSN
- 2040-3372
- DOI
- 10.1039/c5nr03827h
- language
- English
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title = {{Anisotropic responsive microgels with tuneable shape and interactions}},
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