CO 2-switchable wormlike micelles

Y Zhang, Y Feng, J Wang, S He, Z Guo, Z Chu…

Index: Zhang, Yongmin; Feng, Yujun; Wang, Jiyu; He, Shuai; Guo, Zanru; Chu, Zonglin; Dreiss, Cecile A. Chemical Communications, 2013 , vol. 49, # 43 p. 4902 - 4904

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Abstract

The crafting of “smart” materials, which are able to adapt their behaviour in response to environmental triggers, has been a major challenge of soft matter research in the past decade. 1 Amongst these, smart wormlike micelles (SWLMs), 2–5 long flexible nano-structured self-assemblies of surfactant molecules in solution, are a highly promising area of recent development, given the versatility of the materials and simplicity of the design. Minor changes in surfactant ...