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Nanoscopic Interfacial Hydrogel Viscoelasticity Revealed from Comparison of Macroscopic and Microscopic Rheology

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  • معلومة اضافية
    • بيانات النشر:
      American Chemical Society (ACS)
    • الموضوع:
      2024
    • Collection:
      TU Berlin: Deposit Once
    • نبذة مختصرة :
      Deviations between macrorheological and particle-based microrheological measurements are often considered to be a nuisance and neglected. We study aqueous poly(ethylene oxide) (PEO) hydrogels for varying PEO concentrations and chain lengths that contain microscopic tracer particles and show that these deviations reveal the nanoscopic viscoelastic properties of the particle–hydrogel interface. Based on the transient Stokes equation, we first demonstrate that the deviations are not due to finite particle radius, compressibility, or surface-slip effects. Small-angle neutron scattering rules out hydrogel heterogeneities. Instead, we show that a generalized Stokes–Einstein relation, accounting for an interfacial shell around tracers with viscoelastic properties that deviate from bulk, consistently explains our macrorheological and microrheological measurements. The extracted shell diameter is comparable to the PEO end-to-end distance, indicating the importance of dangling chain ends. Our methodology reveals the nanoscopic interfacial rheology of hydrogels and is applicable to different kinds of viscoelastic fluids and particles. ; DFG, 431232613, SFB 1449: Dynamische Hydrogele an Biogrenzflächen
    • File Description:
      application/pdf
    • ISSN:
      1530-6984
      1530-6992
    • Relation:
      https://depositonce.tu-berlin.de/handle/11303/21673; https://doi.org/10.14279/depositonce-20474
    • الرقم المعرف:
      10.14279/depositonce-20474
    • Rights:
      https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
    • الرقم المعرف:
      edsbas.EF19CCDA