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RSC ADVANCES
Volume 5, Issue 13, Pages 9703-9708Publisher
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/c4ra15437a
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- Marie Curie Career Integration Grant (Project: SAT-FAT-FREE) within the 7th European Community Framework Programme
- Hercules foundation [AUGE-09-029]
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We report the use of fumed silica (hydrophilic colloidal silica particles) to generate triglyceride solvent-based soft matter systems (organogels and bigels). Interestingly, the bigels showed a better gel strength compared to organogels while showing a comparatively weaker thixotropic recovery. Electron microscopy and energy dispersive X-ray spectroscopy were used to understand the microstructure of these new thixotropic molecular gel systems with respect to the fractal-like aggregation of silica particles as well as the percolating network of organic-aqueous phases.
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