Issue 4, 2009
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Soft Matter

Effect of encapsulated polymers and nanoparticles on shear deformation of droplets

O. Berk Usta,a   Dennis Perchak,b   Andrew Clarke,c   Julia M. Yeomansd  and  Anna C. Balazs*a  

* Corresponding authors

a Chemical and Petroleum Engineering Department, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

b Kodak Research Laboratories, 1999 Lake Avenue, Rochester, New York, USA

c Kodak European Research, 332 Science Park, Cambridge, UK

d Rudolf Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics, University of Oxford, 1 Keble Rd, Oxford, UK

Abstract

Using computational modeling, we investigate the shear response of a droplet that encases a dilute concentration of polymers and nanoparticles. We show that the viscoelastic effects of the encapsulated polymers reduce the shear-induced deformation of the droplet at intermediate capillary numbers, but can induce the breakup of the droplet at high capillary numbers.

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/B815148B
Article type
Paper
Submitted
30 Aug 2008
Accepted
20 Nov 2008
First published
20 Jan 2009

Soft Matter, 2009,5, 850-855

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Effect of encapsulated polymers and nanoparticles on shear deformation of droplets

O. Berk Usta, D. Perchak, A. Clarke, J. M. Yeomans and A. C. Balazs, Soft Matter, 2009, 5, 850 DOI: 10.1039/B815148B

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