Rheology experiments were performed using an Anton Paar (Ostfildern, Germany) Physica MCR 301 system utilizing a plate-plate geometry (25 mm diameter) equipped with a solvent trap and Peltier element for temperature adjustment. All aqueous samples were stored after dissolution at 5 °C for 48 h. The temperature-sweep was performed in oscillation mode from 5-40 °C (heating rate: 0.05 °C/s), holding the temperature for 60 s followed by a cooling phase from 40-5 °C (cooling rate: 0.05 °C/s) using a fixed amplitude of 0.1 % and angular frequency of 10 rad/s. The long-time gelation experiment was performed at an amplitude of 0.1 % and an angular frequency of 1 rad/s for several hours. To investigate the viscoelastic properties the linear viscoelastic region (LVR) was determined by performing amplitude sweeps at different concentrations (5-40 wt.%) from 0.01 % to 500 % strain deformation and a fixed angular frequency of 10 rad/s at 5 °C. Subsequently, frequency sweeps from 0.1 to 100 and 500 rad/s, respectively, were conducted at 0.1 % strain deformation and 5 °C. To investigate structure recovery properties, the deformations were alternated from 0.1 % to 150 % at a fixed angular frequency of 10 rad/s and 5 °C. For steady shear experiments, the control shear rate mode was used from 0.001 to 100 1/s at 5 °C. The obtained viscosity 𝜂 decrease was fitted using the power-law expression established by Ostwald-de Waele (eq. 1).