ArticleLangmuir : the ACS journal of surfaces and colloids2024
Formation of Self-Healing Granular Eutectogels through Jammed Carbopol Microgels in Supercooled Deep Eutectic Solvent.
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- Eutectozymes as Soft Hybrid Materials for Advanced Biocatalysis.Advanced materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.) · 2026Article
- Eutectogels: Recent Advances, Design Strategies, and Emerging Applications in Biotechnology.Gels (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- Current Status and Future Perspectives of Betaine and Betaine-Based Natural Deep Eutectic Solvents: A Review.Foods (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- Pancreatic Lipase in Eutectogels as Emerging Materials: Exploring Their Properties and Potential Applications in Biosensing.Biosensors · 2025Article
- Mechanisms of COThe journal of physical chemistry. B · 2025Article
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Abstract
Typically, gel-like materials consist of a polymer network structure in a solvent. In this work, a gel-like material is developed in a deep eutectic solvent (DES) without the presence of a polymer network, achieved simply by adding microgels. The DES is composed of choline chloride and citric acid and remains stably in a supercooled state at room temperature, exhibiting Newtonian fluid behavior with high viscosity. When the microgel (Carbopol) concentration exceeds 2 wt %, the DES undergoes a transition from a liquid to a soft gel state, characterized as a granular eutectogel. The soft gel characteristics of eutectogels exhibit a yield stress, and their storage moduli exceed the loss moduli. The yield stress and storage moduli are observed to increase with increasing microgel concentration. In contrast, the ion conductivity decreases with increasing microgel concentration but eventually levels off. Because the eutectogel can dissolve completely in excess water, it is a physical gel-like material, attributed to the densely packed structure of microgels in the supercooled DES. Due to the absence of networks, the granular eutectogel has the capability to self-heal simply by being pushed together after being cut into two pieces.
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