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Exploring the roles of roughness, friction and adhesion in discontinuous shear thickening by means of thermo-responsive particles

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  • Chiao-Peng Hsu

    (ETH Zurich
    ETH Zurich)

  • Joydeb Mandal

    (ETH Zurich)

  • Shivaprakash N. Ramakrishna

    (ETH Zurich)

  • Nicholas D. Spencer

    (ETH Zurich)

  • Lucio Isa

    (ETH Zurich)

Abstract

Dense suspensions of colloidal or granular particles can display pronounced non-Newtonian behaviour, such as discontinuous shear thickening and shear jamming. The essential contribution of particle surface roughness and adhesive forces confirms that stress-activated frictional contacts can play a key role in these phenomena. Here, by employing a system of microparticles coated by responsive polymers, we report experimental evidence that the relative contributions of friction, adhesion, and surface roughness can be tuned in situ as a function of temperature. Modifying temperature during shear therefore allows contact conditions to be regulated, and discontinuous shear thickening to be switched on and off on demand. The macroscopic rheological response follows the dictates of independent single-particle characterization of adhesive and tribological properties, obtained by colloidal-probe atomic force microscopy. Our findings identify additional routes for the design of smart non-Newtonian fluids and open a way to more directly connect experiments to computational models of sheared suspensions.

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  • Chiao-Peng Hsu & Joydeb Mandal & Shivaprakash N. Ramakrishna & Nicholas D. Spencer & Lucio Isa, 2021. "Exploring the roles of roughness, friction and adhesion in discontinuous shear thickening by means of thermo-responsive particles," Nature Communications, Nature, vol. 12(1), pages 1-10, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:natcom:v:12:y:2021:i:1:d:10.1038_s41467-021-21580-y
    DOI: 10.1038/s41467-021-21580-y
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    1. Florence J. Müller & Lucio Isa & Jan Vermant, 2023. "Toughening colloidal gels using rough building blocks," Nature Communications, Nature, vol. 14(1), pages 1-9, December.

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