Shear thickening is a type of non-Newtonian behavior in which the stress required to shear a
fluid increases faster than linearly with shear rate. Many concentrated suspensions of …

Dense suspensions of particles are relevant to many applications and are a key platform for
developing a fundamental physics of out-of-equilibrium systems. They present challenging …

Particles suspended in a Newtonian fluid raise the viscosity and also generally give rise to a
shear-rate dependent rheology. In particular, pronounced shear thickening may be …

Shear thickening fluid (STF) is a dense colloidal suspension of nanoparticles in a carrier
fluid in which the viscosity increases dramatically with a rise in shear rate. Due to the …

We study the emergence of discontinuous shear thickening (DST) in cornstarch by
combining macroscopic rheometry with local magnetic resonance imaging measurements …

We report direct measurements of spatially resolved stress at the boundary of a shear-
thickening cornstarch suspension revealing persistent regions of high local stress …

Magnetically actuated mobile robots demonstrate attractive advantages in various medical
applications due to their wireless and programmable executions with tiny sizes. Confronted …

The discontinuous shear thickening (DST) of dense suspensions is a remarkable
phenomenon in which the viscosity can increase by several orders of magnitude at a critical …

Recent theories predict that discontinuous shear thickening (DST) involves an instability, the
nature of which remains elusive. Here, we explore unsteady dynamics in a dense cornstarch …

It has recently been argued that steady-state vorticity bands cannot arise in shear thickening
suspensions because the normal stress imbalance across the interface between the bands …