Nature Communications (Jun 2019)

Relationship between rheology and structure of interpenetrating, deforming and compressing microgels

  • Gaurasundar M. Conley,
  • Chi Zhang,
  • Philippe Aebischer,
  • James L. Harden,
  • Frank Scheffold

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-10181-5
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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Thermosensitive microgels are widely studied polymer-colloid hybrids but their interactions and packing are still not fully understood. Here, the authors study the linear viscoelasticity of dense microgels and analyse the local particle structure and morphology based on superresolution microscopy.