We applied shear to a silica nanoparticle dispersion in a microfluidic jet device and
observed direction-dependent structure along and across the flow direction. The …

The relationship between the local structure of complex liquids and their response to shear
is generally not well understood. This concerns, in particular, the formation of particle strings …

Non-Newtonian fluids are susceptible to flow instabilities such as shear banding, in which
the fluid may exhibit a markedly discontinuous viscosity at a critical stress. Here we report …

Liquid microjets play a key role in fiber spinning, inkjet printing, and coating processes. In all
of these applications, the liquid jets carry dispersed particles whose spatial and orientational …

With the recent developments of modern synchrotron and X-ray Free Electron Laser (XFEL)
light sources high speed and micrometer-sized liquid jets have become one of the most …

The dynamical behavior of molecular alignment strongly affects the flow properties of nano‐
rod dispersions such as nematic polymers. Numerical studies have been performed for the …

We compare the flow behavior of several shear-thinning fluids of xanthan gum (XG) and
polyethylene oxide (PEO) with a relatively similar shear-thinning index (∼ 0.34–0.50) in a …

The increased availability and brilliance of new X-ray facilities have in the recent years
opened up the possibility to characterize the alignment of dispersed anisotropic …

We study the orientational dynamics of heavy silica microrods flowing through a microfluidic
channel. Comparing experiments and Brownian dynamics simulations we identify different …

Particle focusing behavior in non-Newtonian flows has received increasing attention in the
past two decades because of its potential for microfluidic applications. Most previous studies …