Université de Fribourg

Population-balance description of shear-induced clustering, gelation and suspension viscosity in sheared DLVO colloids

Lattuada, Marco ; Zaccone, Alessio ; Wu, Hua ; Morbidelli, Massimo

In: Soft Matter, 2016, vol. 12, no. 24, p. 5313–5324

Application of shear flow to charge-stabilized aqueous colloidal suspensions is ubiquitous in industrial applications and as a means to achieve controlled field-induced assembly of nanoparticles. Yet, applying shear flow to a charge-stabilized colloidal suspension, which is initially monodisperse and in quasi-equilibrium leads to non-trivial clustering phenomena (and sometimes to a gelation...