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Optical Anisotropy of Sheared Carbon-Nanotube Suspensions

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Author(s)

D J. Fry, B Langhorst, H W. Kim, E A. Grulke, Haonan Wang, Erik K. Hobbie

Abstract

We measure the anisotropy of sheared carbon nanotube suspensions for a range of concentration, aspect ratio, and strain rate using a variety of methods. Our measurements highlight the importance of hydrodynamic interactions, with scaling over a broad range of dimensionless shear rate. Our results also suggest that hydrodynamic interactions might be exploited to fractionate carbonnanotubes by length.
Citation
Physical Review Letters
Volume
95
Issue
No. 3
Pub Type
Journals

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Keywords

anisotropy, nanotubes, shear

Citation

Fry, D. , Langhorst, B. , Kim, H. , Grulke, E. , Wang, H. and Hobbie, E. (2005), Optical Anisotropy of Sheared Carbon-Nanotube Suspensions, Physical Review Letters, [online], https://tsapps.nist.gov/publication/get_pdf.cfm?pub_id=852373 (Accessed October 27, 2025)

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Created December 31, 2004, Updated October 12, 2021
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