Bistability and "negative" viscosity for a suspension of insulating particles in an electric field

It is shown that a suspension of insulating particles in a liquid with low conductivity possesses bistability and has a "negative" effective viscosity effect in the electric field due to internal rotations. By Brownian dynamics simulation it has been found that thermal fluctuations of the angular velocity of particles in this bistable system can have a large effect on the viscosity of the suspension.     

Study of solid–liquid interface in water dispersions of microcrystalline celluloses

Interaction on the solid–liquid surface in dispersions of microcrystalline cellulose (MCC) with various particle sizes has been studied by means of rheological methods. It was shown that the MCC dispersions possess shear-thinning rheological properties. An inversely proportional relationship between the average particle size of the MCC particles and the viscosity of the dispersions was discovered. This phenomenon is explained by the decrease of water mobility with increase in the specific surface of the MCC particles. Irreversible closing of the MCC pores reduces the viscosity of water dispersions. Addition of some water-soluble polymers leads to a considerable increase in viscosity due to formation of macromolecular net composed of solid particles.     

Hyperviscous diblock copolymer vesicles

Giant vesicles prepared from the diblock copolymer polybutadien-b-polyethyleneoxide (PB-PEO) exhibit a shear surface viscosity, which is about 500 times higher than those found in common phospholipid bilayers. Our result constitutes the first direct measurement of the shear surface viscosity of such polymersomes. At the same time, we measure bending and stretching elastic constants, which fall in the range of values typical for lipid membranes. Pulling out a tether from an immobilized polymersome and following its relaxation back to the vesicle body provides an estimate of the viscous coupling between the two monolayers composing the polymer membrane. The detected intermonolayer friction is about an order of magnitude higher than the characteristic one for phospholipid membranes. Polymersomes are tough vesicles with a high lysis tension. This, together with their robust rheological properties, makes them interesting candidates for a number of technological applications. Received 2 March 2001 and Received in final form 15 February 2002     

Rheology of a dilute suspension of vesicles

From the hydrodynamical equations of vesicle dynamics under shear flow, we extract a rheological law for a dilute suspension. This is made analytically in the small excess area limit. In contrast to droplets and capsules, the rheological law (written in the comoving frame) is nonlinear even to the first leading order. We exploit it by evaluating the effective viscosity eta(eff) and the normal stress differences N1 and N2. We make a link between rheology and microscopic dynamics. For example, eta(eff) is found to exhibit a cusp singularity at the tumbling threshold, while N(1,2) undergoes a collapse.     

Modelling surface rheology of complex interfaces with extended irreversible thermodynamics

The rheological properties of the interfaces in complex multiphase systems often play a crucial role in the dynamic behavior of these systems. For example, these properties affect the dynamics of emulsions, of dispersions of vesicles, of biological fluids, or of free surface flows. In the past three to four decades a vast amount of literature has been produced dealing with the rheological properties of interfaces stabilized by low molecular weight surfactants, proteins, (bio)polymers, lipids, colloidal particles, and various mixtures of these surface active components. The data of these surface rheological experiments are often analyzed with ad hoc generalizations of rheological models used for the analysis of rheological properties of bulk phases. The validity of these generalizations is in general not discussed. Here we show how the extended irreversible thermodynamics (EIT) formalism can be used to generate a wide range of thermodynamically admissible constitutive models for the surface stress tensor, which not only encompass currently used constitutive models, but also suggest several new ones, particularly useful for modelling the nonlinear response of interfaces.     

Flow, ordering, and jamming of sheared granular suspensions

We study the rheological properties of a granular suspension subject to constant shear stress by constant volume molecular dynamics simulations. We derive the system "flow diagram" in the volume fraction or stress plane (phi, F): at low phi the flow is disordered, with the viscosity obeying a Bagnold-like scaling only at small F and diverging as the jamming point is approached; if the shear stress is strong enough, at higher phi an ordered flow regime is found, the order-disorder transition being marked by a sharp drop of the viscosity. A broad jamming region is also observed where, in analogy with the glassy region of thermal systems, slow dynamics followed by kinetic arrest occurs when the ordering transition is prevented.     

Effect of viscosity on the magnetic permeability of Sendust-filled polymer composites

A flake-shaped Sendust/acryl suspension is tape cast and the effect of the viscosity of the suspension on the magnetic permeability of the resulting composite is investigated. The real part of the permeability of the composite is inversely proportional to the viscosity of the suspension, indicating that the lower the viscosity of the suspension, the higher the permeability of the composite. The viscosity of the suspension is controlled by adding a small amount of surfactant; an anionic surfactant is most effective for lowering the viscosity at a given concentration range. It is thought that using a suspension with a relatively low viscosity improves the permeability of the resulting composite due to the easy alignment of the flake-shaped filler with the plain direction of the sheet.     

Dissipative particle dynamics simulation on the rheological properties of heavy crude oil

The rheological properties of heavy crude oil have a significant impact on the production, refining and transportation. In this paper, dissipative particle dynamics (DPD) simulations were performed to study the effects of the addition of light crude oil and emulsification on the rheological properties of heavy crude oil. The simulation results reflected that the addition of light crude oil reduced the viscosity effectively. The shear thinning behaviour of crude oil mixtures were becoming less distinct as the increase of the mass fraction of light crude oil. According to the statistics, the shear had an influence on the aggregation and spatial orientation of asphaltene molecules. In addition, the relationship between the viscosity and the oil mass fraction was investigated in the simulations of emulsion systems. The viscosity increased with the oil mass fraction slowly in oil-in-water emulsions. When the oil mass fraction was higher than 50%, the increase became much faster since systems had been converted into water-in-oil emulsions. The equilibrated morphologies of emulsion systems were shown to illustrate the phase inversion. The surfactant-like feature of asphaltenes was also studied in the simulations.     

Cyclopentane hydrate slurry viscosity measurements coupled with visualisation

One of the advanced strategies in hydrate plug prevention is to obtain an in-depth knowledge of the rheological properties of hydrate slurries. A major challenge in hydrate rheological measurements is that the viscosity profile can be difficult to attribute to physical phenomena, such as particle agglomerate breakup, particle bedding/settling and wall growth. In this work, a novel visual rheometer has been developed to help overcome these previous limitations by enabling the visualisation of the evolution of cyclopentane hydrate slurries during viscosity measurements. Two different model systems were used in this investigation: (1) non-emulsified and (2) emulsified systems. The physical phenomena, including initial hydrate formation, hydrate wall growth, bedding and sloughing were visually observed and directly correlated to the corresponding viscosity profile. For the non-emulsified system, there are four different stages of hydrate slurry development including initial hydrate formation, wall adhesion and growth and sloughing that caused changes in the viscosity profiles. Large fluctuations in the viscosity profile for a non-emulsified system were found to be the result of a sloughing phenomenon. On the other hand, the emulsified system showed a well-dispersed hydrate slurry with minimal wall and impeller growth, corresponding to a smooth viscosity profile.     

Effects of Viscosity Ratio on Morphological,Rheological and Mechanical Properties of PP/PBT Melt Spun Alloy Fibers

Phase morphology formation plays an important role in the mechanical properties of polymer alloy fibers. The development of the blend morphology depends not only on the intrinsic properties of the component polymers but also on extrinsic factors such as viscosity ratio, λ, in the melt spinning process. The effects of blend component viscosity ratio on the morphological, rheological, and mechanical properties of polypropylene/poly(butylene terephthalate) (PP/PBT) melt spun alloy fibers were investigated. Accordingly, two kinds of PP as matrix phase and two kinds of PBT as dispersed phase, with various melt viscosity, were physically mixed and then blended during the extrusion step of melt spinning. SEM micrographs and rheological and mechanical properties evaluations showed that the morphology of PP/PBT alloy fibers strongly depend on the viscosity ratio, λ. Finer diameter PBT fibrils were observed for Viscosity ratios less than 1 (λ < 1) compared to samples with λ > 1. The best mechanical properties in alloy fiber samples were obtained for the viscosity ratio closest to unity (sample with λ = 0.9). The lowest differences among measured complex viscosities at various shear rates (0.1, 10, and 100 s^?1) were also observed in samples with λ = 0.9. The results showed that the mechanical properties of alloy fiber samples are affected not only by morphological properties observed at different viscosity ratios but also by the properties of the individual polymer components.     

Rheological Behavior and Interaction of Polycarbonate/Barium Sulfate Composites

The effect of microsized barium sulfate (BaSO ₄ ) on the rheological properties of Polycarbonate (PC) was investigated. The composite exhibits a reduced viscosity as compared to pure PC, indicating that use of barium sulfate is a new method to enhance the mobility of PC melts. Model calculation of this behavior was carried out according to a viscosity rheological equation. Values of model parameters were obtained and discussed. Other rheological properties were also determined, including frequency dependence of storage modulus and loss modulus. Analysis by Fourier Transform Infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy and X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy (XPS) shows that the barium sulfate fillers strongly interact with PC chains, with the type of interaction being determined.     

Rheological Studies of Silica-Tragacanth Suspensions

Formation of a concentrated solid/liquid suspension, as an industrial intermediate, is often necessary in many industrial manufacturing processes, particularly for paints, paper coating, ceramics, catalysts, etc. Polysaccharides have been widely used for the control of the stability of suspensions. In this paper, various rheological parameters; such as viscosity—shear rate, shear stress—shear rate, storage and loss modulus frequency at various temperatures, and strain stress; have been measured for different compositions of silica powder in water with 0.3 wt% tragacanth gum as a phase stabilizer.     

Cooperative shear model for the rheology of glass-forming metallic liquids

A rheological law based on the concept of cooperatively sheared flow zones is presented, in which the effective thermodynamic state variable controlling flow is identified to be the isoconfigurational shear modulus of the liquid. The law captures Newtonian as well as non-Newtonian viscosity data for glass-forming metallic liquids over a broad range of fragility. Acoustic measurements on specimens deformed at a constant strain rate correlate well with the measured steady-state viscosities, hence verifying that viscosity has a unique functional relationship with the isoconfigurational shear modulus.     

分散介质和温度对纳米二氧化硅胶体剪切增稠行为的影响

对分散介质和温度对纳米二氧化硅胶体剪切增稠行为的影响进行了系统研究. 用四种液体分散介质(乙二醇, 聚乙二醇400, 丙二醇, 聚丙二醇400)制备的纳米二氧化硅胶体表现出不同的连续剪切增稠或者跳变剪切增稠行为. 温度上升降低了分散介质的黏度, 进而降低了胶体的表观黏度. 剪切增稠的临界黏度与温度的关系符合“Arrhenius”公式的描述. 胶体黏度与分散介质黏度的比值用来归一化不同温度下的稳态剪切流变曲线. 在低剪切速率的剪切变稀阶段, 剪切变稀现象与分散介质黏度没有明显相关性, 而与分散介质的化学性质密切相关. 在高剪切速率的剪切增稠阶段, 分散介质黏度越高, 胶体剪切增稠现象越强烈.     

Rheological Study of Some Epiclon‐Based Polyimides

The rheological properties of new partially aliphatic polyimides in N,N‐dimethylformamide were investigated at different concentrations and temperatures comparatively to their corresponding poly(amic acid)s. The rheological functions,i.e., dynamic viscosity, shear rate, elastic shear modulus, and viscous shear modulus, and the parameters obtained from rheological properties such as apparent energy of activation and flow activation entropy reflect the influence of the diamine chemical structures used in the synthesis process.     

Negative viscosity due to magnetic properties of a non-dilute suspension composed of ferromagnetic rod-like particles with magnetic moment normal to the particle axis

The negative viscosity of a colloidal dispersion composed of ferromagnetic rod-like particles, which have a magnetic moment normal to the particle axis, have been investigated. A simple shear flow problem has been treated to clarify the particle orientational distribution and rheological properties of such a semi-dense dispersion, under circumstances of an external magnetic field applied in the direction normal to the shear plane of a simple shear flow. The results obtained here are summarized as follows. For the cases of a very strong magnetic field and magnetic interactions between particles, the magnetic moment of the rod-like particles is significantly restricted in the magnetic field direction, so that the particle approximately aligns in the shear flow direction. Also, the particle can easily rotate around the axis of the cluster almost freely even in a simple shear flow. Characteristic orientational properties of the particle cause negative viscosity, as in the previous study for a dilute dispersion. However, magnetic particle-particle interactions have a function to make such negative viscosity decrease.     

Rheological behaviour of ethylene glycol-titanate nanotube nanofluids

Experimental work has been performed on the rheological behaviour of ethylene glycol based nanofluids containing titanate nanotubes over 20–60 °C and a particle mass concentration of 0–8%. It is found that the nanofluids show shear-thinning behaviour particularly at particle concentrations in excess of ~2%. Temperature imposes a very strong effect on the rheological behaviour of the nanofluids with higher temperatures giving stronger shear thinning. For a given particle concentration, there exists a certain shear rate below which the viscosity increases with increasing temperature, whereas the reverse occurs above such a shear rate. The normalised high-shear viscosity with respect to the base liquid viscosity, however, is independent of temperature. Further analyses suggest that the temperature effects are due to the shear-dependence of the relative contributions to the viscosity of the Brownian diffusion and convection. The analyses also suggest that a combination of particle aggregation and particle shape effects is the mechanism for the observed high-shear rheological behaviour, which is also supported by the thermal conductivity measurements and analyses.     

Rheological properties of a nematic cell oriented in a planar manner

We propose a simple model to investigate the rheological properties of a nematic cell oriented in a planar manner. The storage and loss modulus are evaluated in the case of strong and weak anchoring conditions. The contribution of the surface viscosity to the rheological parameters is also considered.     

High energy dissipation-based process to improve the rheological properties of bentonite drilling muds by reducing the particle size

Drilling mud is a multi-phase fluid that is used in the petroleum drilling process. Bentonite is the most important constituent of drilling mud; it endows the drilling mud with its rheological behaviors, such as viscosity, yield stress, and shear thinning. The process of manufacturing microscale bentonite at the nanoscale level is very promising for commercializing nano-based drilling mud. In contrast to the conventional method using the impeller, bentonite was manufactured in its nanoparticle state in the present work through ultrasonic and homogenizer processes in the solution state. In case of the ultrasonic process, the viscosity increase in the low shear rate region before and after processing of the 5 wt% bentonite-based mud and the rheological properties in the presence of polymer additive were compared. In case of the homogenizer process, the rheological properties of 3 wt% bentonite-based mud employed through the homogenizer process and 5 wt% mud prepared generally were compared. Both processes reported improvement of rheological properties, in which shear thinning behavior strongly occurred when particle size decreased through FE-SEM, TEM image analysis, and particle size analyzer. A regularized Herschel-Bulkley model suitable for rheological quantitative explanation of drilling mud including yield stress was selected. The homogenizer process has the potential to be applied in the petroleum drilling industry for large-scale production, and the mechanism was confirmed by numerical analyses. In conclusion, we presented a simple and easy-to-apply process to rapidly produce nano-based drilling mud.     

Rheological properties of water-based magnetic fluid and its emulsion

Field-induced rheological properties were studied for pure magnetic fluids (MFs) and 5% MF–cetyltrimethylammonium bromide (CTABr) emulsion for varying CTABr concentration (0–0.1 M) at different temperatures. The zero-field rheological study for 5% MF–CTABr emulsion shows maximum viscosity for 0.01 M CTABr concentrations. In-field viscosity results for 0.01 M CTABr–MF emulsion shows nearly 10 times more change in viscosity than the pure fluid, indicating the interaction between micelles and magnetic particles.