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The structure and rheology of complex fluids
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The structure and rheology of complex fluids

Author: Ronald Gary Larson
Publisher: New York : Oxford University Press, 1999.
Series: Topics in chemical engineering.
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Describes the microstructures of polymeric, colloidal, amphiphilic, and liquid crystalline liquids, and the relationship between microstructure and mechanical and flow properties. This book provides  Read more...

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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Ronald Gary Larson
ISBN: 019512197X 9780195121971
OCLC Number: 299882138
Description: xxi, 663 p.
Contents: Part I: Fundamentals ; 1. Introduction to Complex Fluids ; 1.3 Rheological Measurements and Properties ; 1.4 Kinematics and Stress ; 1.5 Flow, Slip, and Yield ; 1.6 Structural Probes of Complex Fluids ; 1.7 Computational Methods ; 1.8 The Stress Tensor ; 1.9 Summary ; 2. Basic Forces ; 2.1 Intoduction ; 2.3 Van der Waals Interactions ; 2.4 Electrostatic Interactions ; 2.5 Hydrogen-Bonding, Hydrophobic, and Other Interactions ; 2.6 Summary ; Part II: Polymers, Glassy Liquids, and Polymer Gels ; 3. Polymers ; 3.1 Introduction ; 3.2 Equilibrium Properties ; 3.3 Intrinsic Viscosity and Overlap Concentration ; 3.4 Elementary Molecular Theories ; 3.5 Linear Viscoelasticity and Time-Temperature Superposition ; 3.6 The Rheology of Dilute Polymer Solutions ; 3.7 The Rheology of Entangled Polymers ; 3.8 Summary ; 4. Glassy Liquids ; 4.1 Introduction ; 4.2 Phenomenology of the Glass Transition ; 4.3 Free-Volume Theories ; 4.4 Entropy Theories ; 4.5 Nonlinear Relaxation and Aging ; 4.6 Mode-Coupling Theory and Colloidal Hard-Sphere Glasses ; 4.7 Analog Models ; 4.8 Rheology of Glassy Liquids ; 4.9 Summary ; 5. Polymer Gels ; 5.1 Introduction ; 5.2 Gelation Theoies ; 5.3 Rheology of Chemical Gels and Near-Gels ; 5.4 Rheology of Physical Gels ; 5.5 Summary ; Part III: Suspensions ; 6. Particulate Suspensions ; 6.1 Introduction ; 6.2 Hard, and Slightly Deformable Spheres ; 6.3 Nonspherical Particles ; 6.4 Electrically Charged Particles ; 6.5 Particles in Viscoelastic Liquids: "Filled Melts" ; 6.6 Summary ; 7. Particulate Gels ; 7.1 Introduction ; 7.2 Particle Interactions in Suspensions ; 7.3 Rheology of Particulate Gels ; 7.4 Summary ; 8. Electro- and Magneto-Responsive Suspensions ; 8.1 Introduction ; 8.2 Electrorheological Fluids ; 8.3 Magnetorheological Fluids ; 8.4 Ferrofluids ; 8.5 Summary ; 9. Foams, Emulsions, and Blends ; 9.1 Introduction ; 9.2 Emulsion Preparation ; 9.3 Rheology of Emulsions and Immiscible Blends ; 9.4 Structure and Coarsening of Foams ; 9.5 Rheology of Foams ; 9.6 Summary ; Part IV: Liquid Crystals and Self-Assembling Fluids ; 10. Liquid Crystals ; 10.1 Introduction ; 10.2 Nematics ; 10.3 Cholesterics: Chiral Nemantics ; 10.4 Smectics ; 10.5 Summary ; 11. Liquid Crystalline Polymers ; 11.1 Introduction ; 11.2 Molecular Characteristics of Liquid Crystalline Polymers ; 11.3 Flow Properties of Nematic LCP's ; 11.4 Molecular Dynamics of Polymeric Nematics ; 11.5 Molecular Theory for the Rheology of Polymeric Nematics ; 11.6 Summary ; 12. Surfactant Solutions ; 12.1 Introduction ; 12.2 Methods of Predicting Microstructures ; 12.3 Disordered Micellar Solutions ; 12.4 Surfactant Liquid Crystals ; 12.5 Summary ; 13. Block Copolymers ; 13.1 Introduction ; 13.2 Thermodynamics of Block Copolymers ; 13.3 Rheology and Shear-Aligning of Block Copolymers ; 13.4 Summary ; Appendix: Momentum-Balance Equations in the Absence of Inertia
Series Title: Topics in chemical engineering.
Other Titles: Complex fluids
Responsibility: Ronald G. Larson.
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