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Stimuli-Responsive Self-Healing Viscoelastic Gels

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A viscoelastic gel (VEG) can exhibit both viscous and elastic properties. Such gels can respond dramatically to the external stimulus like temperature, pH, and CO2 showing change in macroscopic properties with minor variation in the environment. Some smart viscoelastic gels show switchable self-healing properties on switching ON–OFF of stimuli. They revert to their original form on removing stimuli imposed. They have been studied extensively by the theoreticians and experimentalists—owing to their unique rheological properties and prospective applications and great potential in various industrial applications ranging from microfluidics, oil production, drug delivery, to drag reduction. Recently, smart viscoelastic gels (SVEGs) have attracted considerable interest due to the tunability of their viscoelasticity with imposed stimuli, such as electric currents, UV–Vis, temperature, redox reaction, and pH.

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