Issue 7, 2008
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Soft Matter

Highly anisotropic vorticity aligned structures in a shear thickening attractive colloidal system†

Chinedum O. Osujia  and  David A. Weitzb  

a Department of Chemical Engineering, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06511, USA
E-mail: chinedum.osuji@yale.edu

b School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
E-mail: weitz@seas.harvard.edu

Abstract

Vorticity aligned cylindrical flocs of carbon black particles are formed in steady flow at low shear rates and, strikingly, appear as transient structures in the flow response of gels produced by the quenching of high rate shear thickening flows.

Graphical abstract: Highly anisotropic vorticity aligned structures in a shear thickening attractive colloidal system

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/B716324J
Article type
Communication
Submitted
24 Oct 2007
Accepted
04 Apr 2008
First published
29 Apr 2008

Soft Matter, 2008,4, 1388-1392

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C. O. Osuji and D. A. Weitz, Soft Matter, 2008, 4, 1388 DOI: 10.1039/B716324J

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