Dilution leading to viscosity increase based on the cononsolvency effect of temperature-sensitive microgel suspensions

- The relative zero shear viscosity vs Φeff at different temperatures and methanol fraction superpose to a single mastercurve.
- Both ƞ0 and ƞrel of microgel dispersions was found to increase when diluting microgel dispersions from XMEOH = 0.25 to XMEOH = 0.2 or XMEOH = 0.175 at 10 °C and 15 °C.
- ƞrel of the microgel dispersions can be calculated based on hard sphere model and showed pronounced increase by adding methanol to the microgel dispersions.