The aim of this work was to apply an experimental design to formulate a stable depilatory cream at ambient temperature. A preliminary study was performed to optimize the most accurate operating parameters, which are then used for the determination of the rheological properties. Long-term stability of the emulsion formulations was investigated to obtain the optimal region of each factor. An expe...

This paper presents the results of a rheological study of thermotropic nematic colloids aggregated into cellular structures. Small sterically stabilised PMMA particles dispersed in a liquid crystal matrix densely pack on cell interfaces, but reversibly mix with the matrix when the system is heated above Tni. We obtain a remarkably high elastic modulus, G ′ ≥ 10 5 Pa, which is a nearly linear fu...

The characteristic flavor of chocolate has to be developed in several processing steps. During processing, the components are mixed, refined, and conched to attain desired rheological properties for a final defined product texture and melting characteristics. A conche is a scraped-surface mixer that optimizes flavor development and turns chocolate mass into a flowable liquid. Through shear and ...

This paper discusses the development of a new manufacturing technology, called a Variable Lip Slot Die (VLSD), used for automatically patterning viscous liquid materials (e.g., adhesives, sealants) in a controlled manner. This is not easily done due to the characteristic properties of these types of materials, i.e., high viscosity, temperature-dependent rheological properties, tendency to cure....

Viscoelastic solutions formed in a catanionic surfactant system of dodecyltriethylammonium bromide (DTEAB)/sodium dodecylsulfate (SDS) at the molar ratio of 27/73 were systematically studied using a combination of rheology and dynamic light scattering (DLS). Wormlike micelles began to form above the total surfactant concentration (C(total)) of 120 mM by the growth of small cylindrical micelles....

The polymerization-induced phase-separation process of polyethersulfone (PES)-modified epoxy systems was monitored in situ continuously on a single sample throughout the entire curing process by using optical microscopes, time-resolved light scattering (TRLS), scanning electronic microscopes (SEM), and a rheometry instrument. At specific PES content a viscoelastic transformation process of phas...

Hierarchically structured aluminium oxide was hydrothermally synthesized with carbamide as a precipitator. Raman spectroscopy, SEM spectroscopy, and X-ray phase analysis were used to investigate morphology and parameters of porously structured aluminium oxide as influenced upon by concentration of reactive solution, excessive portions of precipitator, and the counterion type. Differing mechanis...

Substrate constraints and interfacial boundary layers in thin polystyrene films are explored with high strain rate indentations characteristic of thermomechanical terabit data storage operations. Under these impact-like conditions, the coupling of strain-rate and inertial effects leads to large plastic deformations relative to quasi-static indentations. Strain shielding is present when the plas...

We explore the stability of equilibrium solution(s) of a simple model of microvascular blood flow in a two-node network. The model takes the form of convection equations for red blood cell concentration, and contains two important rheological effects—the F̊ahræus–Lindqvist effect, which governs viscosity of blood flow in a single vessel, and the plasma skimming effect, which describes the separa...

We briefly review the recent developments in the theory of individual semiflexible filaments, and of a crosslinked network of such filaments, both permanent and transient. Starting from the free energy of an individual semiflexible chain, models on its force-extension relation and other mechanical properties such as Euler buckling are discussed. For a permanently crosslinked network of filament...