Anisotropy of sheared carbon-nanotube suspensions
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
7-15-2005
Abstract
We measure the anisotropy of sheared carbon-nanotube suspensions for a broad range of concentration, aspect ratio, and strain rate using a variety of methods. Our measurements highlight the importance of excluded-volume interactions in the semidilute regime, with scaling in terms of a dimensionless shear rate. Our results also suggest that such interactions might be exploited to fractionate carbon nanotubes by length in simple shear flow. © 2005 The American Physical Society.
Publication Title
Physical Review Letters
Recommended Citation
Fry, D.,
Langhorst, B.,
Kim, H.,
Grulke, E.,
Wang, H.,
&
Hobbie, E.
(2005).
Anisotropy of sheared carbon-nanotube suspensions.
Physical Review Letters,
95(3).
http://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.95.038304
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