Rheological responses of microgel suspensions with temperature-responsive capillary networks

Abstract

A method coupling microgel jamming and temperature-responsive capillary networking is developed to manipulate the rheological properties of microgel-capillary suspensions by microgel sizes, the fraction of capillary solution, and temperature after...

3D Printable Poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) Microgel Suspensions with Temperature-Dependent Rheological Responses

“…PNIPAm microgels were synthesized from the water-in-oil template reported in our previous work . The aqueous phase, PNIPAm precursor solution, was prepared by mixing a monomer (NIPAm, 2 M), a cross-linker (BIS, 0.13 M) and a photoinitiator (I-2959, 0.4 wt %) following the compositions shown in Table in deionized (DI) water using a vortex mixer (MX-S, Dlab, USA) until all chemicals dissolved at 23 °C.…”