Issue 25, 2011
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Chemical Communications

Thermo-switchable surfactant gel†

Zonglin Chuab  and  Yujun Feng*a  

* Corresponding authors

a Chengdu Institute of Organic Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chengdu 610041, P. R. China
E-mail: yjfeng@cioc.ac.cn
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b Graduate School of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, P. R. China

Abstract

A thermo-switchable surfactant gel with the property of gelation on heating was developed for the first time based on palmitylamidosulfobetaine. Micellar growth from globular aggregates to entangled worms upon heating is responsible for the thermal gelation.

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/C1CC11428J
Article type
Communication
Submitted
11 Mar 2011
Accepted
15 Apr 2011
First published
04 May 2011

Chem. Commun., 2011,47, 7191-7193

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Z. Chu and Y. Feng, Chem. Commun., 2011, 47, 7191 DOI: 10.1039/C1CC11428J

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