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The Structure and Rheology of Complex Fluids

TLDR
In this article, the authors present a comprehensive overview of the properties and properties of complex fluids and their properties in terms of physics, chemistry, physics theory, and physics of complex fluid properties.
Abstract
Part I: Fundamentals 1. Introduction to Complex Fluids 1.3 Rheological Measurements and Properties 1.4 Kinematics and Stress 1.5 Flow, Slip, and Yield 1.6 Structural Probes of Complex Fluids 1.7 Computational Methods 1.8 The Stress Tensor 1.9 Summary 2. Basic Forces 2.1 Intoduction 2.3 Van der Waals Interactions 2.4 Electrostatic Interactions 2.5 Hydrogen-Bonding, Hydrophobic, and Other Interactions 2.6 Summary Part II: Polymers, Glassy Liquids, and Polymer Gels 3. Polymers 3.1 Introduction 3.2 Equilibrium Properties 3.3 Intrinsic Viscosity and Overlap Concentration 3.4 Elementary Molecular Theories 3.5 Linear Viscoelasticity and Time-Temperature Superposition 3.6 The Rheology of Dilute Polymer Solutions 3.7 The Rheology of Entangled Polymers 3.8 Summary 4. Glassy Liquids 4.1 Introduction 4.2 Phenomenology of the Glass Transition 4.3 Free-Volume Theories 4.4 Entropy Theories 4.5 Nonlinear Relaxation and Aging 4.6 Mode-Coupling Theory and Colloidal Hard-Sphere Glasses 4.7 Analog Models 4.8 Rheology of Glassy Liquids 4.9 Summary 5. Polymer Gels 5.1 Introduction 5.2 Gelation Theoies 5.3 Rheology of Chemical Gels and Near-Gels 5.4 Rheology of Physical Gels 5.5 Summary Part III: Suspensions 6. Particulate Suspensions 6.1 Introduction 6.2 Hard, and Slightly Deformable Spheres 6.3 Nonspherical Particles 6.4 Electrically Charged Particles 6.5 Particles in Viscoelastic Liquids: "Filled Melts" 6.6 Summary 7. Particulate Gels 7.1 Introduction 7.2 Particle Interactions in Suspensions 7.3 Rheology of Particulate Gels 7.4 Summary 8. Electro- and Magneto-Responsive Suspensions 8.1 Introduction 8.2 Electrorheological Fluids 8.3 Magnetorheological Fluids 8.4 Ferrofluids 8.5 Summary 9. Foams, Emulsions, and Blends 9.1 Introduction 9.2 Emulsion Preparation 9.3 Rheology of Emulsions and Immiscible Blends 9.4 Structure and Coarsening of Foams 9.5 Rheology of Foams 9.6 Summary Part IV: Liquid Crystals and Self-Assembling Fluids 10. Liquid Crystals 10.1 Introduction 10.2 Nematics 10.3 Cholesterics: Chiral Nemantics 10.4 Smectics 10.5 Summary 11. Liquid Crystalline Polymers 11.1 Introduction 11.2 Molecular Characteristics of Liquid Crystalline Polymers 11.3 Flow Properties of Nematic LCP's 11.4 Molecular Dynamics of Polymeric Nematics 11.5 Molecular Theory for the Rheology of Polymeric Nematics 11.6 Summary 12. Surfactant Solutions 12.1 Introduction 12.2 Methods of Predicting Microstructures 12.3 Disordered Micellar Solutions 12.4 Surfactant Liquid Crystals 12.5 Summary 13. Block Copolymers 13.1 Introduction 13.2 Thermodynamics of Block Copolymers 13.3 Rheology and Shear-Aligning of Block Copolymers 13.4 Summary Appendix: Momentum-Balance Equations in the Absence of Inertia

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