Fig. 1: Synthesis approach and gelation mechanism of our thermoresponsive colloidal gel with smooth and rough primary particles. | Nature Communications

Fig. 1: Synthesis approach and gelation mechanism of our thermoresponsive colloidal gel with smooth and rough primary particles.

From: Toughening colloidal gels using rough building blocks

Fig. 1: Synthesis approach and gelation mechanism of our thermoresponsive colloidal gel with smooth and rough primary particles.The alternative text for this image may have been generated using AI.

a Grafting approach using amine-yne click-like-chemistry, where smooth or rough -NH functionalized particles are grafted with alkynoate functionalized octadecane. b Scheme of the quiescent gelation mechanism, where both smooth (blue) and rough (red) particles have a steric repulsion at high temperatures and network-forming phobic interactions at low temperatures. c Scheme of the smooth (blue) and rough (red) primary particle gel network during and after shearing.

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