Dynamics and yielding of binary self-suspended nanoparticle fluids

Agrawal, Akanksha; Yu, Hsiu-Yu; Srivastava, Samanvaya; Choudhury, Snehashis; Narayanan, Suresh; Archer, Lynden A.

Dynamics and yielding of binary self-suspended nanoparticle fluids

Type

Article

Authors

Agrawal, Akanksha
Yu, Hsiu-Yu
Srivastava, Samanvaya
Choudhury, Snehashis
Narayanan, Suresh
Archer, Lynden A.

KAUST Grant Number

KUS-C1-018-02

Date

2015

Abstract

Yielding and flow transitions in bi-disperse suspensions of self-suspended spherical nanoparticles are studied by varying the size ratio and fraction of larger particles in the blends.

Citation

Agrawal, A., Yu, H.-Y., Srivastava, S., Choudhury, S., Narayanan, S., & Archer, L. A. (2015). Dynamics and yielding of binary self-suspended nanoparticle fluids. Soft Matter, 11(26), 5224–5234. doi:10.1039/c5sm00639b

Acknowledgements

This work was supported by the National Science Foundation, Award No. DMR-1006323 and by Award No. KUS-C1-018-02, made by King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST). Use of the Advanced Photon Source, operated by Argonne National Laboratory, was supported by the U.S. DOE under Contract No. DE-AC02-06CH11357. We acknowledge Prof. D.L. Koch for helpful discussions.