Relaxing Wrinkles in Jammed Interfacial Assemblies
Abstract
Dynamic covalent bonding has emerged as a mean by which stresses in a network can be relaxed. Here, the strength of the bonding of ligands to nanoparticles at the interface between two immiscible liquids affect the same results in jammed assemblies of nanoparticle surfactants. Beyond a critical degree of overcrowding induced by the compression of jammed interfacial assemblies, the bonding of ligands to nanoparticles (NPs) can be broken, resulting in a desorption of the NPs from the interface. This reduces the areal density of nanoparticle surfactants at the interface, allowing the assemblies to relax, not to a fluid state but rather another jammed state. The relaxation of the wrinkles caused by the compression reflects the tendency of these assemblies to eliminate areas of high curvature, favoring a more planar geometry. This enabled the generation of giant vesicular and multivesicular structures from these assemblies.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Pub Defense Publication
- Publication Date
- Jul 27, 2023
- Source ID
- 10.1002/anie.202307713
Entities
People
- Brett A. Helms
- Ganhua Xie
- Paul Y Kim
- Pei Li
- Qinpiao Yi
- Shipei Zhu
- Shubao Jiang
- Thomas Paul Russell
- Zonglin Chu
Organizations
- Army Research Office
- Hunan University
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
- Tohoku University
- United States Department of Energy
- University of Massachusetts