Patent ID: 7306040

Claim:
A method comprising: providing a treatment fluid comprising an aqueous base fluid, and a stimuli-degradable gel formed by a combination of a gelling agent, and a stimuli-degradable cross linking agent described by the following formula: R 1 —[A]—[R 3 ]—[B]—R 2 wherein R 1 and R 2 may be the same or different, and comprise at least one group selected from the group consisting of: a substituted or unsubstituted ethylenically unsaturated group, N-acryl, O-acryl, acryloyl, vinyl, allyl, melamide, a derivative thereof, and a combination thereof; A and B comprise optional bridging units; and R 3 comprises a degradable group or polymer; and placing the treatment fluid into a subterranean formation.