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Smart use of tertiary amine to design CO2-triggered viscoelastic fluids

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The construction of CO2-responsive surfactant-based viscoelastic fluids is an area of great endeavor, hitherto achieved mainly through the aid of synthetic surfactant with CO2-sensitive group. Here, classic cetyltrimethylammonium bromide (CTAB)-sodium salicylate (NaSal) wormlike micellar system is endowed with CO2 response by simply introducing CO2-responsive triethylamine (TEA) without needing specialized organic synthesis. Such a system can be reversibly switched between water-like solution (∼3 mPa s) and viscoelastic fluid (∼40,000 mPa⋅s) with alternately bubbling CO2 or N2, reflecting microstructures evolution from spheres to worms, and this cycle can be repeated more than 15 times without any deterioration. Whereas HCl-induced viscoelastic fluid exhibits obvious weaken after 15 cycles. Combined with pH, conductivity, rheology, UV–Vis, cryo-TEM, and surface activity parameters, it was demonstrated that the CO2 response of CTAB-NaSal-TEA system originated from the effect of TEA on the binding ability of NaSal to CTAB as species vary, which generally results in a viscosity gap. This simple route to design CO2-triggered viscoelastic fluids can be extended to other tertiary amines, even other types of surfactants, and these CO2-switchable worms are of great interests for scientific community.

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This work was supported by the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (JUSRP11421), the open research fund of Key Laboratory of Food Colloids and Biotechnology Ministry of Education, Jiangnan University (JDSJ2013-08), the Natural Science Foundation of China (21173207), Qinlan Project of Jiangsu Province, and Zhejiang Zanyu Technology Co. Ltd. of Zhejiang Province.

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    Yongmin Zhang, Pengyun An, Xuefeng Liu, Yun Fang & Xueyi Hu

  2. Chengdu Institute of Organic Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chengdu, 610041, People’s Republic of China

    Yongmin Zhang

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Zhang, Y., An, P., Liu, X. et al. Smart use of tertiary amine to design CO2-triggered viscoelastic fluids. Colloid Polym Sci 293, 357–367 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00396-014-3421-7

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