Issue 8, 2018
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Chemical Communications

The deformation of hydrogel microspheres at the air/water interface†

Haruka Minato, ORCID logo a   Masaki Murai,a   Takumi Watanabe, ORCID logo a   Shusuke Matsui, ORCID logo a   Masaya Takizawa,a   Takuma Kureha ORCID logo *a  and  Daisuke Suzuki ORCID logo *ab  

* Corresponding authors

a Graduate School of Textile Science & Technology, Shinshu University, 3-15-1 Tokida Ueda, Nagano 386-8567, Japan
E-mail: d_suzuki@shinshu-u.ac.jp, 15st105g@shinshu-u.ac.jp

b Division of Smart Textiles, Institute for Fiber Engineering, Interdisciplinary Cluster for Cutting Edge Research, Shinshu University, 3-15-1 Tokida Ueda, Nagano 386-8567, Japan

Abstract

The deformation of soft hydrogel microspheres (microgels) adsorbed at the air/water interface was investigated for the first time using large poly(N-isopropyl acrylamide)-based microgels synthesized by a modified aqueous precipitation polymerization method. The deformation of the micron-sized soft microspheres could be visualized clearly and analyzed quantitatively at the air/water interface.

Graphical abstract: The deformation of hydrogel microspheres at the air/water interface

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/C7CC09603H
Article type
Communication
Submitted
15 Dec 2017
Accepted
05 Jan 2018
First published
05 Jan 2018

Chem. Commun., 2018,54, 932-935

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The deformation of hydrogel microspheres at the air/water interface

H. Minato, M. Murai, T. Watanabe, S. Matsui, M. Takizawa, T. Kureha and D. Suzuki, Chem. Commun., 2018, 54, 932 DOI: 10.1039/C7CC09603H

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