Physical gels based on charge-driven bridging of nanoparticles by triblock copolymers

Langmuir

Volumn 28, Issue 33, 2012, Pages 12311-12318

  Lemmers, Marc ^a,c   Spruijt, Evan ^a   Akerboom, Sabine ^a   Voets, Ilja K ^b,d   Van Aelst, Adriaan C ^a   Cohen Stuart, Martien A ^a   Van Der Gucht, Jasper ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FRIBOURG   (Switzerland)

^c DUTCH POLYMER INSTITUTE DPI   (Netherlands)

^d EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABA TRIBLOCK COPOLYMER; AGING PROCESS; HYDROPHILIC POLYMERS; IRREVERSIBLE AGGREGATION; PHYSICAL GEL; PLATEAU MODULI; POSITIVELY CHARGED; PRE-COATING; SILICA NANOPARTICLES; WATER-BASED COATING;

NANOPARTICLES;

BLOCK COPOLYMERS;

INORGANIC SALT; NANOPARTICLE; POLYMER; SILICON DIOXIDE; WATER;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; FLOW KINETICS; GEL; MECHANICAL STRESS; PH;

GELS; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; NANOPARTICLES; POLYMERS; RHEOLOGY; SALTS; SILICON DIOXIDE; STRESS, MECHANICAL; WATER;

EID: 84865502019     PISSN: 07437463     EISSN: 15205827     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/la301917e     Document Type: Article

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