The equilibrium electric double layer (EDL) that surrounds colloidal particles is essential for the response of a suspension under a variety of static or alternating external fields. An ideal salt-free suspension is composed of charged colloidal particles and ionic countercharges released by the charging mechanism. Existing macroscopic theoretical models can be improved by incorporating differe...

A linear stability analysis was carried out for a dilute suspension of rigid spherical particles in cylindrical Couette flow. The perturbation equations for both the continuous fluid phase and the discontinuous particle phase were decomposed into normal modes resulting in an eigenvalue problem that was solved numerically. At a given radius ratio, the theoretical critical Taylor number at which ...

The present article concerns the problem of blood flow through an artery with an axially asymmetric stenosis (constriction). The two-layered macroscopic model consisting of a cell-rich core of suspension of all the erythrocytes described as a particle-fluid suspension (Jeffrey fluid) and a peripheral zone of cell-free plasma (Newtonian fluid). The analytical expressions for flow characteristics...

Erupting magma often contains crystals over a wide range of sizes and shapes, potentially affecting magma viscosity over many orders of magnitude. A robust relation between viscosity and the modality of crystal sizes and shapes remains lacking, principally because of the dimensional complexity and size of the governing parameter space. We have performed a suite of shear viscosity measurements o...

To evaluate the physical and chemical stability of a suspension of mycophenolate mofetil (MMF) prepared in the hospital from commercially available MMF capsules and tablets. Extemporaneous pharmacy was used as a feasible method in this experimental study to prepare suspension form of MMF. Suspension formulations were prepared from both tablets and capsules forms of MMF. Thereafter the stability...

To evaluate the physical and chemical stability of a suspension of mycophenolate mofetil (MMF) prepared in the hospital from commercially available MMF capsules and tablets. Extemporaneous pharmacy was used as a feasible method in this experimental study to prepare suspension form of MMF. Suspension formulations were prepared from both tablets and capsules forms of MMF. Thereafter the stability...

We report a fast, high-throughput method to create size-tunable micro/nanoparticle clusters via evaporative assembly in picoliter-scale droplets of particle suspension. Mediated by gravity force and surface tension force of a contacting surface, picoliter-scale droplets of the suspension are generated from a nanofabricated printing head. Rapid evaporative self-assembly of the particles on a hyd...

The asymptotic dynamics of finite-size particles is governed by a slow manifold that is globally attracting for sufficiently small Stokes numbers. For neutrally buoyant particles suspensions , the slow dynamics coincide with that of infinitesimally small particles, therefore the suspension dynamics should synchronize with Lagrangian particle motions. Paradoxically, recent studies observe a scat...

Surface activation of nanoparticles in suspension using amino organosilane has been carried out via strict control of a particle surface ad-layer of water using a simple but efficient protocol 'Tri-phasic Reverse Emulsion' (TPRE). This approach produced thin and ordered layers of particle surface functional groups which allowed the efficient conjugation of biomolecules. When used in bio-sensing...