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Influence Of Microgel Packing On Raspberry-Like Heteroaggregate Assembly, Shalini Saxena, L. Andrew Lyon
Influence Of Microgel Packing On Raspberry-Like Heteroaggregate Assembly, Shalini Saxena, L. Andrew Lyon
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We describe the influence of microgel packing on colloidal-phase mediated heteroaggregation using poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) and poly(N-isopropylmethacrylamide) microgels with 1% mol or 5% mol N,N’-methylenebis(acrylamide) cross-linker. This system is uniquely designed to interrogate the influence of microgel structure and stiffness on microgel deformation at a curved interface by elminating the necessity of electrostatic charge pairing. Microgel monomer and cross-linker content is expected to influence deformation at a curved interface. Microgel deformation and swelling were characterized via atomic force microscopy (AFM) and viscometry. A systematic study of colloidal-phase heteroaggregation was performed at varied effective volume fractions with all …