Inkjet printing of weakly elastic polymer solutions

Journal of Non-Newtonian Fluid Mechanics

Volumn 205, Issue , 2014, Pages 1-10

  Hoath, Stephen D ^a   Vadillo, Damien C ^a,c   Harlen, Oliver G ^b   McIlroy, Claire ^b   Morrison, Neil F ^b   Hsiao, Wen Kai ^a   Tuladhar, Tri R ^a,d   Jung, Sungjune ^a,e   Martin, Graham D ^a   Hutchings, Ian M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^c AKZONOBEL   (United Kingdom)

^d Trijet Ltd   (United Kingdom)

^e Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH)   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Beads on a string; Elasticity; Finite extensibility; Inkjet; Polymer solutions; Viscosity

Indexed keywords

BEADS-ON-A-STRING; DESIGN SPECIFICATION; EXPERIMENTAL DEMONSTRATIONS; EXTENSIONAL FLOWS; FINITE EXTENSIBILITY; FUNCTIONAL FLUIDS; INKJET; SINGLE FREQUENCY;

ELASTICITY; POLYMER SOLUTIONS; SHEARING; TESTING; VISCOSITY;

INK JET PRINTING;

EID: 84893361557     PISSN: 03770257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jnnfm.2014.01.002     Document Type: Article

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