Nature Communications (May 2020)

Hydrodynamic slip can align thin nanoplatelets in shear flow

  • Catherine Kamal,
  • Simon Gravelle,
  • Lorenzo Botto

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-15939-w
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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Current theories predict that a plate-like particle rotates continuously in a shear flow. Kamal et al. instead show that even nanometric hydrodynamic slip may induce a thin plate-like particle to adopt a stable orientation, and discuss implications of this effect for flow processing of 2D nanomaterials.