January 1, 2004
Author(s)
Sheng Lin-Gibson, Jai A. Pathak, E A. Grulke, Haonan Wang, Erik K. Hobbie
We report an elastic instability associated with flow-induced clustering in non-Brownian colloidal nanotubes. Rheo-optical measurements are compared with recent simulations of mechanical flocculation in sheared fiber suspensions, and we observe an