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MACROMOLECULES
Volume 50, Issue 9, Pages 3680-3689Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acs.macromol.6b02779
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- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft [SPP 1681, AU 321/3-2]
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We investigate the rheological property of microgel monolayers at the water/oil interface using passive and active microrheological methods. At low surface coverage, the microgels at the water/oil interface have a tendency to form aggregated structures (networks) with dominating elasticity. At high surface coverage the microgels form densely packed monolayers. Using microsized magnetic particles as the local rheological probes in the dense microgel monolayers, we perform in situ study of their rheological properties and structures. We observe four regimes where the elasticity of the microgel monolayer has different dependence on the microgel concentration at the interface. The rheological properties of the microgel monolayers are not only dependent on the concentration but also strongly correlated with the intermicrogel interface. Our results also show that the microgel monolayers act similar to soft glassy materials. distance and spacial arrangement of the microgels at the
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