%0 Conference Paper
%A Lang, Christian
%A Lettinga, M.P.
%A Kohlbrecher, Joachim
%A Porcar, Lionel
%T Stiffness and Geometry Influences on the Shear Flow Behavior of Colloidal Rods
%I KU Leuven
%M FZJ-2017-04735
%D 2017
%X The flow of rodlike particle suspensions is of broad practical interest as they are highly susceptible to shear flow. Geometry and stiffness of rods, thereby, play a key role in the microscopic behavior which leads to the macroscopic rheological response. We present a combination of Rheology and Small Angle Neutron Scattering (Rheo-SANS) to resolve the orientational ordering of rodlike viruses under steady shear flow in the 2 relevant planes, the flow-gradient and the flow-vorticity plane. The full orientational order tensor can be resolved in this way, as has been shown earlier [Lang2016].  By bio-engineering viruses with different geometries and stiffnesses, we are able to study the influence of those parameters on the shear thinning behavior of dilute to semi-dilute rodlike colloidal suspensions without polydispersity issues.[Lang2016] C. Lang, J. Kohlbrecher, L. Porcar, M. P. Lettinga; Polymers 8 (2016); 291
%B European Rheology Conference 2017
%C 3 Apr 2017 - 7 Apr 2017, Kopenhagen (Dänemark)
Y2 3 Apr 2017 - 7 Apr 2017
M2 Kopenhagen, Dänemark
%F PUB:(DE-HGF)6
%9 Conference Presentation
%U https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/834847