Shear banding or not in entangled DNA solutions depending on the level of entanglement

Journal of Rheology

Volumn 53, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 73-83

  Boukany, Pouyan E ^a   Wang, Shi Qing ^a  

^a The University of Akron   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CREEP; DNA; GENES; NON NEWTONIAN FLOW; NUCLEIC ACIDS; ORGANIC ACIDS; SHEAR FLOW;

DNA SOLUTIONS; EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES; FLOW BEHAVIORS; LINEAR VELOCITIES; LONG TIMES; MODEL SYSTEMS; NONLINEAR FLOWS; NONLINEAR VELOCITY PROFILES; PLATEAU MODULUS; RHEOMETRIC MEASUREMENTS; ROTATIONAL RHEOMETRY; START-UP; STEADY STATES; STRESS PLATEAUX; THINNING REGIMES; UPPER ENDS;

SOLUTION MINING;

EID: 58149233758     PISSN: 01486055     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1122/1.3009299     Document Type: Article

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