Supramolecular assembly inspired molecular engineering to dynamically tune non-Newtonian fluid:from quasi-static flowability-free to shear thickening

Xingwei Wang, Luyao Bao, Chaoyang Zhang, Jianbin Zhang, Zhiquan Yang, Wufang Yang, Feng Zhou, Weimin Liu

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Shear thickening fluids (STFs) have been the research focus for decades because of the prospect as a damping ingredient. However, their inherent liquid character confines their practical applications. In this work, inspired by the assembly engineering, novel gelatinous shear thickening fluids (GSTFs) are fabricated by integrating low molecular weight gelators (LMWGs) into STFs and investigated by rheological experiments. The results show that the apparent performances of GSTFs are determined by the LMWGs content. LMWGs inside GSTFs can assemble into three-dimensional network that can constraint the flowability of liquid molecular and their content dominate the density and strength of assembly network. At a moderate content, GSTFs exhibit desired properties with restricted quasi-static flowability and almost undamaged dynamic shear thickening character. While a higher content will disappear shear thickening and a lower content cannot gelate STFs. Besides, three different LMWGs are employed to gelate STFs and all they can gelate STFs in spite of the distinct minimum gelation concentration, indicating the universality for GSTFs preparation and the superiority of a reasonable molecular structure of LMWGs. Further, the temperature sweep experiments suggest that GSTFs can endure higher temperature without flowing due to its higher gel-sol transition temperature. Basing on these advanced mechanical properties, we believe that the GSTFs with more expected characters have significance for the study of non-Newtonian fluids and will broaden the special application field of STFs.

源语言英语
页(从-至)1805-1812
页数8
期刊Journal of Colloid and Interface Science
607
DOI
出版状态已出版 - 2月 2022

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