Light and CO2/N2 dual stimuli-responsive wormlike micelles based on a zwitterionic surfactant and an azobenzene surfactant

Jianzhong Jiang; Qianqian Xu; Guozheng Wang; Zhenggang Cui

doi:10.1039/c7sm02064c

Light and CO₂/N₂ dual stimuli-responsive wormlike micelles based on a zwitterionic surfactant and an azobenzene surfactant

Soft Matter. 2018 Jan 31;14(5):773-779. doi: 10.1039/c7sm02064c.

Authors

Jianzhong Jiang¹, Qianqian Xu, Guozheng Wang, Zhenggang Cui

Affiliation

¹ The Key Laboratory of Synthetic and Biological Colloids, Ministry of Education, School of Chemical and Material Engineering, Jiangnan University, 1800 Lihu Road, Wuxi, Jiangsu, P. R. China. jzjiang@jiangnan.edu.cn.

PMID: 29302673
DOI: 10.1039/c7sm02064c

Abstract

Stimulus-responsive surfactant wormlike micelles have been widely investigated in the past decade. In this article, we report light and CO₂/N₂ dual stimuli-responsive wormlike micelles using a zwitterionic surfactant (SDAP) and an azobenzene surfactant (C₄AzoC₆N). In contrast to traditional amine-containing wormlike micelles, a fast and reversible CO₂-triggered thinning behavior was observed. The system can also be reversibly switched by UV irradiation. The dual stimuli-responsive wormlike micelles (C₄AzoC₆N-SDAP) may have applications in the development of functional materials for microfluidics and analytical chemistry.