Elastic Flow Instability in Nanotube Suspensions
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1-1-2004
Abstract
We report an elastic instability associated with flow-induced clustering in semidilute non-Brownian colloidal nanotubes. Rheo-optical measurements are compared with simulations of mechanical flocculation in sheared fiber suspensions, and the evolving structure is characterized as a function of confinement and shear stress. The transient rheology is correlated with the evolution of highly elastic vorticity-aligned aggregates, with the underlying instability being somewhat ubiquitous in complex fluids. © 2004 The American Physical Society.
Publication Title
Physical Review Letters
Recommended Citation
Lin-Gibson, S.,
Pathak, J.,
Grulke, E.,
Wang, H.,
&
Hobbie, E.
(2004).
Elastic Flow Instability in Nanotube Suspensions.
Physical Review Letters,
92(4), 4.
http://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.92.048302
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