Multi-length scale evaluation of the temperature-tunable mechanical properties of a lyotropic mesophase

Polymer Journal

Volumn 45, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 179-187

  Lee, Sungwon ^a   Seifert, Sönke ^a   Firestone, Millicent A ^a  

^a ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

hydrogels; hydrogen bonded network; mesophase; poly(ethylene oxide); rheology

Indexed keywords

BULK WATER; CHAIN ENTANGLEMENTS; COMPLEX FLUIDS; GEL PHASE; GEL STRENGTHS; HYDROGEN BONDED NETWORK; INCREASING TEMPERATURES; INTERSTITIAL WATER; LATTICE DIMENSIONS; LOWER TEMPERATURES; LYOTROPIC MESOPHASES; MECHANICAL MATERIALS; MESOPHASES; NONIONIC POLYMERS; ORDERED ARRAY; POLYETHYLENE GLYCOL (PEG); POLYMER CHAINS; POLYMER-WATER INTERACTIONS; SOL STATE; STEADY-SHEAR RHEOLOGY; STIMULI-RESPONSIVE; TEMPERATURE MODULATION; TEMPERATURE-INDUCED; THERMOREVERSIBLE; WATER LAYERS; WATER SOLUBILITIES;

HYDROGELS; HYDROGEN BONDS; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; POLYETHYLENE GLYCOLS; POLYETHYLENE OXIDES; RHEOLOGY; SOLS;

POLYMERS;

EID: 84873591628     PISSN: 00323896     EISSN: 13490540     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/pj.2012.99     Document Type: Article

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