The properties of worm-like micelles (WLM) represent a key research area in both academia and industry. This is primarily due to the fact that they have widespread applications across a range of industries ranging from personal care to oil recovery.

They offer a simple, cost-effective way to generate remarkable viscosity and viscoelasticity, as well as can be made into smart or stimuli-responsive structures that
can undergo transitions into another phase with strikingly different rheology.

Such a response is of high interest for biomedical and drug delivery applications and also for separations using microfluidic devices.