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Interfacial assembly of anisotropic core-shell and hollow microgels
Anne C. Nickel, Andrey A. Rudov, Igor I. Potemkin +2
Microgels, cross-linked polymers with submicrometer size, are ideal soft model systems. While spherical microgels have been studied extensively, anisotropic microgels have been har…
Anisotropic Microgels show their Soft Side
Anne C. Nickel, Timon Kratzenberg, Steffen Bochenek +6
Anisotropic, submicrometer sized particles are versatile systems providing interesting features in creating ordering in 2-dimensional systems. Combining hard ellipsoids with a soft…
Interactions Between a Responsive Microgel Monolayer and a Rigid Colloid: From Soft to Hard Interfaces
Steffen Bochenek, Cathy E. McNamee, Michael Kappl +2
Responsive poly-N-isopropylacrylamide-based microgels are commonly used as model colloids with soft repulsive interactions. It has been shown that the microgel-microgel interaction…
Do cavities matter? Hollow microgels resist crystallization
Andrea Scotti, Alan. R. Denton, Monia Brugnoni +2
Solutions of microgels have been widely used as model systems to gain insight into atomic condensed matter and complex fluids. We explore the thermodynamic phase behavior of hollow…
Temperature-sensitive Soft Microgels at Interfaces: Air-Water versus Oil-Water
Steffen Bochenek, Andrea Scotti, Walter Richtering
The formation of smart emulsions or foams whose stability can be controlled on-demand by switching external parameters is of great interest for basic research and applications. An…
Influence of charges on the behavior of polyelectrolyte microgels confined to oil-water interfaces
Maximilian M. Schmidt, Steffen Bochenek, Alexey A. Gavrilov +2
The role of electrostatics on the interfacial properties of polyelectrolyte microgels has been discussed controversially in the literature. It is not yet clear if, or how, Coulomb…