Exploring the roles of roughness, friction and adhesion in discontinuous shear thickening by means of thermo-responsive particles

Chiao-Peng Hsu; Joydeb Mandal; Shivaprakash N. Ramakrishna; Nicholas D. Spencer; Lucio Isa

doi:10.1038/s41467-021-21580-y

Nature Communications (Mar 2021)

Exploring the roles of roughness, friction and adhesion in discontinuous shear thickening by means of thermo-responsive particles

Chiao-Peng Hsu,
Joydeb Mandal,
Shivaprakash N. Ramakrishna,
Nicholas D. Spencer,
Lucio Isa

Affiliations

Chiao-Peng Hsu: Laboratory for Soft Materials and Interfaces, Department of Materials, ETH Zurich
Joydeb Mandal: Laboratory for Surface Science and Technology, Department of Materials, ETH Zurich
Shivaprakash N. Ramakrishna: Laboratory for Surface Science and Technology, Department of Materials, ETH Zurich
Nicholas D. Spencer: Laboratory for Surface Science and Technology, Department of Materials, ETH Zurich
Lucio Isa: Laboratory for Soft Materials and Interfaces, Department of Materials, ETH Zurich

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-21580-y
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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Understanding shear thickening in colloidal suspensions is of great practical importance. Hsu et al. create responsive polymer-coated silica particles whose rheology can be tuned in situ, following modifications of their tribology, which is separately characterized at the single-colloid level.

Published in Nature Communications

ISSN: 2041-1723 (Online)
Publisher: Nature Portfolio
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Science
Website: https://www.nature.com/ncomms/

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