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A single-component photorheological fluid with light-responsive viscosity

Published:2020 Issue:11 Volume:12 Page:6300-6306
ISSN:2040-3364
Container-title:Nanoscale
language:en
Short-container-title:Nanoscale

Author:

Kelly Elaine A.¹²³⁴^ORCID,Willis-Fox Niamh⁵⁶²³⁴^ORCID,Houston Judith E.⁷⁸⁹^ORCID,Blayo Camille¹⁰¹¹¹²¹³¹⁴,Divitini Giorgio¹²³⁴^ORCID,Cowieson Nathan¹⁵¹⁶¹⁷⁴,Daly Ronan⁵⁶²³⁴^ORCID,Evans Rachel C.¹²³⁴^ORCID

Affiliation:

1. Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy

2. University of Cambridge

3. Cambridge CB3 0FS

4. UK

5. Institute for Manufacturing

6. Department of Engineering

7. European Spallation Source ERIC

8. SE-221 00 Lund

9. Sweden

10. School of Chemistry

11. Trinity College Dublin

12. College Green

13. Dublin 2

14. Ireland

15. Diamond Light Source

16. Harwell Science and Innovation Campus

17. Didcot

Abstract

A single-component photorheological fluid comprised of a neutral photosurfactant in water can reversibly switch its viscosity four orders of magnitude, between high and low viscosity states, depending on the wavelength of light used.

Funder

Diamond Light Source

Isaac Newton Trust

Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council

H2020 Research Infrastructures

National Science Foundation

Horizon 2020

Publisher

Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)

Subject

General Materials Science

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