Viscosity of hard-sphere suspensions: Can we go lower?

Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research

Volumn 45, Issue 21, 2006, Pages 6906-6914

  Gopalakrishnan, Vijay ^a   Zukoski, Charles F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HARD SPHERE SUSPENSIONS; PARTICLE DIFFUSIVITIES; SUSPENSION VISCOSITY;

COLLOIDS; GLASS TRANSITION; MICROSTRUCTURE; VISCOSITY; VOLUME FRACTION;

SUSPENSIONS (FLUIDS);

COLLOIDS; GLASS TRANSITION; MICROSTRUCTURE; SUSPENSIONS (FLUIDS); VISCOSITY; VOLUME FRACTION;

EID: 33750332612     PISSN: 08885885     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ie051255u     Document Type: Article

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