The microstructure and rheology of a model, thixotropic nanoparticle gel under steady shear and large amplitude oscillatory shear (LAOS)

Journal of Rheology

Volumn 58, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 1301-1328

  Min Kim, Jung ^a   Eberle, Aaron P R ^b   Kate Gurnon, A ^a   Porcar, Lionel ^b,c   Wagner, Norman J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c INSTITUT LAUE LANGEVIN   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALIGNMENT; ANISOTROPY; ELASTICITY; EXPERIMENTS; NANOPARTICLES;

ANISOTROPIC MICROSTRUCTURES; INTERPARTICLE ATTRACTIONS; LARGE AMPLITUDE OSCILLATORY SHEAR; MICRO-STRUCTURAL; RHEOLOGICAL RESPONSE; SCATTERING PATTERN; STRUCTURAL ANISOTROPY; THERMOREVERSIBLE;

MICROSTRUCTURE;

EID: 84906670448     PISSN: 01486055     EISSN: 15208516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1122/1.4878378     Document Type: Article

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