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PVP immobilized SiO2 nanospheres for high-performance shear thickening fluid

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We develop a modified method to improve the rheological performance of SiO2-based shear thickening fluid (STF). Directly adding surfactant into STF is the most common method to improve the rheological performance of SiO2-based STF. However, the final viscosity increases quickly with the increase of shear rate, which is against for the practical applications. In this work, SiO2 nanospheres are firstly modified by PVP K30 through an ethanol refluxing method and the modified SiO2 nanospheres are used to prepare PVP@SiO2-STF. Compared with the unmodified SiO2 based STF (SiO2-STF), the PVP@SiO2-STF presents an obvious increase of shear thickening (ST) effects and the maximum viscosity increases by 7 times and the critical shear rates decrease about 10 times approximately. A reasonable explanation is proposed to interpret the influence of the modification methods on the rheological properties of STF. This work provides a new way to control the shear thickening behavior and also contributes to understand the mechanism of ST effect, which has an important significance to develop controllable STF.

Figure PVP immobilized SiO2 based shear thickening fluid shows a dramatic improvement in shear thickening behavior (a, b, and c) and the illustration of the enhanced mechanism of shear thickening (d).

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Financial supports from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 11372301). The Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (WK2480000002) and the Strategic Priority Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (Grant No. XDB22040502) are gratefully acknowledged. This work was also supported by Collaborative Innovation Center of Suzhou Nano Science and Technology.

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  1. Department of Chemistry, Collaborative Innovation Center of Suzhou Nano Science and Technology, University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), Hefei, 230026, People’s Republic of China

    Mei Liu, Sheng Wang, Linfeng Bai, Min Sang & Wanquan Jiang

  2. CAS Key Laboratory of Mechanical Behavior and Design of Materials, Department of Modern Mechanics, USTC, Hefei, 230027, People’s Republic of China

    Qian Chen, Shouhu Xuan & Xinglong Gong

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Liu, M., Chen, Q., Wang, S. et al. PVP immobilized SiO2 nanospheres for high-performance shear thickening fluid. J Nanopart Res 19, 234 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11051-017-3911-x

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