A suspension fluid prepared by dispersing polyethylene oxide particles into a solvent including water and one or more types of compounds selected from the group consisting of ethylene glycol and propylene glycol, and a method for manufacturing the same. The phase-change suspension fluid can be a shear-thinning fluid showing a constant newtonian behavior in a low shear rate or low frequency region, but showing a non-newtonian behavior appearing as liquid-like suspension in a high shear rate or high frequency region due to viscosity decrease, and is capable of reversible phase changes by the vibration of a vehicle, and therefore, may provide effects of having advantages of a hydraulic bush in a low frequency region and also having advantages of a solid bush in a high frequency region.

The invention relates to Janus-type spherical cellulose nanoparticles and processes for producing them. The Janus-type spherical cellulose nanoparticles of the invention are chemically modified on one face only, producing particles with a lipophilic face opposite a hydrophilic face. Such particles demonstrate superior surfactant properties and can be used to prepare Pickering emulsions.

In some examples, systems and methods are disclosed for enhancing a gel to sol transition of a polymer that includes disposing the polymer on a host material, exposing the polymer and the host material to an exposure temperature that causes the polymer to form a gel, and cooling the polymer and the host material to a cooling temperature that causes the gel to transition to a sol.

A powdery opacifying additive, comprising a polymer of one or more monomers from the group comprising vinyl esters, (meth)acrylic esters, vinylaromatics, olefins, 1,3 dienes and vinyl halides and, if appropriate, further monomers which are copolymerizable therewith, in the form of agglomerated polymer particles with included air-voids, having a volume mean particle size d.sub.v of 20 to 80 m.

The present invention relates to a process for the preparation of dispersions of colloidal polymerized particles and to the colloidal polymerized particles obtained and/or obtainable by the process as well as to their use.

The present disclosure describes methods of producing colloids of precise sizes and shapes using temperature responsive block copolymers. A method of precise size control of colloids may include producing colloids in a solution of block copolymers, and POSS colloids. The temperature of the solution may be increased at a set rate to swell mesoscopic droplets to a precise size. A method of precise shape control of colloids may include polymerizing colloids in a solution of block copolymers, and POSS colloids and manipulating the temperature of the solution. In particular, the temperature of the solution may be increased at a set rate to swell and polymerize mesoscopic droplets and subsequently decreased at a set rate to collapse the colloids into a precise shape.