Results on the rheological behavior of Chinese hamster ovary cell suspensions in a large range of concentrations are reported. The concentration-dependent yield stress and elastic plateau modulus are formalized in the context of fractal aggregates under shear, and quite different exponents are found as compared to the case of red blood cell suspensions. This is explained in terms of intrinsic m...

Hyaluronic acid (HA or hyaluronan) is a natural, high molecular weight, linear polysaccharide composed of alternating N-acetyl glucosamine and glucuronic acid disaccharide units. HA is ubiquitous in human and animal tissues. It is found in the vitreous body, in the extracellular matrix of soft connective tissues, and in the synovial fluids. By supplementing the body’s level of glycosaminoglycan...

We demonstrate microscopic fluidic control and memory elements through the use of an aqueous viscoelastic polymer solution as a working fluid. By exploiting the fluid's non-Newtonian rheological properties, we were able to demonstrate both a flux stabilizer and a bistable flip-flop memory. These circuit elements are analogous to their solid-state electronic counterparts and could be used as com...

The current paper focuses on the preparation and some characteristics of viscoelastic hydrogels, ViscoGelsTM, made from chitosans having a random acylation pattern. Three different chitosan batches with a high fraction of acetylation were selected based on their Mw, and the impact of degree of cross-linking on these chitosan samples has been studied with respect to the properties of the final h...

The influence of pH of walnut oil emulsions on droplet morphology, droplet size distribution, time and temperature stability, and rheological properties has been studied. It has been found that walnut oil based emulsions form a metastable gel-like microstructure at steady conditions revealed by a linear viscoelastic response at low deformations. Flow curves of investigated emulsions demonstrate...

The impact of small nonionic hydrophobic molecule, trioxyethylene monododecyl ether (C12EO3), on the viscoelastic properties of aqueous solutions of cetylpyridinium chloride (CPC) is studied. As the C12EO3 concentration increases, the viscosity passes through a maximum. Dynamic rheological measurements revealed a comprehensive picture of how C12EO3 affects the different length scales in the ent...

S U M M A R Y We examine the effects of rheological layering on post-seismic deformation using models of an elastic layer over a viscoelastic layer and a viscoelastic half-space. We extend a general linear viscoelastic theory we have previously proposed to models with two layers over a half-space, although we only consider univiscous Maxwell and biviscous Burgers rheologies. In layered viscoela...

Abstract To simulate the specific material properties of thermoplastic polymers a suitable constitutive model is essential. The parallel rheological framework (PRF) was calibrated and evaluated in this study as potential for polymer stent application. Tensile well recovery tests with different loading rates were performed using PLLA specimens. In order to calibrate model, conducted simulated ac...

Osteoarthritis (OA) is the most common joint disease that affects more than 80% of people over 55 years and in its final stages leads to disability. One safe non-surgical methods OA treatment intra-articular injections hyaluronic acid (HA). Objective : compare viscoelastic rheological properties HA medical products with different concentrations sodium hyaluronate (SH) available Russian Federati...