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So far, flow-induced transitions and structures formed by the assembly of surfactant micelles have been reversible. Now, a microporous extensional flow process forms a permanent gel, which remains intact even after flow has stopped.

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Figure 1: A schematic of a spherical micelle of surfactant molecules in aqueous solution.
Figure 2: The formation of a permanent gel, made up of a network of micelles, using a microfluidic porous-medium technique.

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  1. Matteo Pasquali is in the Departments of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering and Chemistry, Lovett College, The Smalley Institute for Nanoscale Science and Technology, The Ken Kennedy Institute for Information Technology, Rice University, MS 362, 6100 Main Street, Houston, Texas 77005, USA. mp@rice.edu,

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Pasquali, M. Grow with the flow. Nature Mater 9, 381–382 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1038/nmat2761

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