Microfluidic extensional rheometry using a hyperbolic contraction geometry

Rheologica Acta

Volumn 52, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 529-546

  Ober, Thomas J ^a   Haward, Simon J ^a,b   Pipe, Christopher J ^a   Soulages, Johannes ^a   McKinley, Gareth H ^a  

^a Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Extensional viscosity indexer; Flow induced birefringence; High elongation rates; Micro particle image velocimetry; Microfluidic rheometry

Indexed keywords

EID: 84878921897     PISSN: 00354511     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00397-013-0701-y     Document Type: Article

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