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Rheology and Microstructural Behavior of Semidilute Suspensions of Semiflexible Rods across Five Decades of Shear Rate

February 18, 2025
Author(s)
Paul Salipante, Ryan Murphy, Steve Kuei, Jeffrey Fagan, Christopher Sims, Kathleen Weigandt, Steven Hudson
Rod-like particles are efficient rheology modifiers and are commonly found in a variety of biological and industrially relevant suspensions, from biofilaments to worm-like surfactant micelles. These suspensions display strong shear-thinning behavior, and

Scattering Insights into Shear-Induced Scission of Rodlike Micelles

January 23, 2025
Author(s)
Guan-Rong Huang, Ryan Murphy, Lionel Porcar, Chi-Huan Tung, Changwoo Do, Wei-Ren Chen
Studying the scission of rodlike micelles under mechanical forces is essential for understanding their stability and behavior in industrial applications. Mechanical stress can fragment these micelles, impacting performance. Investigating this process

Thermoreversible gels of hollow silica nanorod dispersions

May 1, 2024
Author(s)
Haesoo Lee, KHUSHBOO SUMAN, David Moglia, Ryan Murphy, Norman Wagner
Colloidal suspensions of anisotropic particles are ubiquitous in particle-based industries. Consequently, there is a need to quantify the effects of particle shape on equilibrium phases and kinetic state transitions, particularly at lower aspect ratios (L

Soft Matter Roadmap

December 12, 2023
Author(s)
Jean-Louis Barrat, Emanuela Del Gado, Stefan Egelhaaf, Xiaoming Mao, Marjolein Dijkstra, David Pine, Sanat Kumar, Kyle Bishop, Oleg Gang, Allie Obermeyer, Christine Papadakis, Constantinos Tsitsilianis, Ivan Smalyukh, Aurelie Hourlier-Fargette, Sebastien Andrieux, Wiebke Drenckhan, Norman J. Wagner, Ryan Murphy, Eric Weeks, Yilong Han, Luca Cipelletti, Laurence Ramos, Wilson Poon, James Richards, Itai Cohen, Eric Furst, Alshakim Nelson, Stephen Craig, Rajesh Ganapathy, Ajay Sood, Francesco Sciortino, Muhittin Mungan, Srikanth Sastry, Colin Scheibner, Michel Fruchart, Vincenzo Vitelli, S. Ridout, M. Stern, I. Tah, G. Zhang, Andrea Liu, Chinedum Osuji, Yuan Xu, Heather Shewan, Jason Stokes, Matthias Merkel, Pierre Ronceray, Jean-Francois Rupprecht, Olga Matsarskaia, Frank Schreiber, Felix Rossen-Runge, Marie-Eve Aubin-Tam, G. Koenderink, Rosa Espinosa-Marzal, Joaquin Yus, Jiheon Kwon
Soft materials are usually defined as materials made of mesoscopic entities, often self-organised, sensitive to thermal fluctuations and to weak perturbations. Archetypal examples are colloids, polymers, amphiphiles, liquid crystals, foams. The importance

Rheology and Dynamics of a Solvent Segregation Driven Gel (SeedGel)

January 4, 2023
Author(s)
Yuyin Xi, Ryan Murphy, Qingteng Zhang, Aurora Zemborain, Suresh Narayanan, Junsu Chae, Siyoung Choi, Andrei Fluerasu, Lutz Wiegart, Yun Liu
Bicontinuous structures promise applications in a broad range of research fields, such as energy storage, membrane science, and biomaterials. Kinetically arrested spinodal decomposition is found responsible for stabilizing such structures in different

The Very Small-Angle Neutron Scattering Instrument at the National Institute of Standards and Technology

April 1, 2022
Author(s)
John Barker, James Moyer, Steven Kline, G. Jensen, Jeremy Cook, Cedric Gagnon, Elizabeth Kelley, Jean Philippe Chabot, Nicholas C. Maliszewskyj, Chirag Parikh, Wangchun Chen, Ryan Murphy, C. Glinka
A description and the performance of the Very Small-Angle Neutron Scattering (VSANS) Diffractometer at the National Institute of Standards and Technology are presented. The measurement range of the instrument extends over three decades of momentum transfer

Probing Clustering Dynamics between Silicon and PAA or LiPAA Slurries under Processing Conditions

June 3, 2021
Author(s)
Mary Burdette-Trofimov, Beth Armstrong, Ryan Murphy, Luke Heroux, Mathieu Doucet, Alexander Rogers, Gabriel Veith
This work explores the complex interplay between slurry aggregation, agglomeration, and conformation (i.e. shape) of poly(acrylic acid) (PAA) and lithiated poly(acrylic acid) (LiPAA) based silicon slurries as a function of shear rate, and the resulting

Role of low molecular weight polymers on the dynamics of silicon anodes during casting

April 13, 2021
Author(s)
Mary Burdette, Beth Armstrong, Ryan Murphy, Luke Heroux, Mathieu Doucet, Stephen Trask, Alexander Rogers, Gabriel Veith
This work probes the slurry architecture of a high silicon content electrode slurry with and without low molecular weight polymeric dispersants as a function of shear rate to mimic electrode casting conditions for poly(acrylic acid) (PAA) and lithium

Multiscale Microstructure, Composition, and Stability of Surfactant/Polymer Foams

December 8, 2020
Author(s)
Stefania Perticaroli, Jana Herzberger, Yiping Sun, Jonathan D. Nickels, Ryan Murphy, Kathleen Weigandt, Paula J. Ray
Foam stability is a critical part of product performance and consumer experience in materials as diverse as beer or detergents. Inclusion of polymer additives is a known strategy to improve foam stability, but questions persist about the amount of polymer

Capillary RheoSANS: Measuring the Rheology and Nanostructure of Complex Fluids at High Shear Rates

July 15, 2020
Author(s)
Ryan P Murphy, Zachary W. Riedel, Marshall A. Nakatani, Paul Salipante, Javen S. Weston, Steven D. Hudson, Kathleen M Weigandt
Complex fluids containing micelles, proteins, polymers and inorganic nanoparticles are often processed and used in high shear environments that can lead to structural changes at the nanoscale. Here, capillary rheometery is combined with small-angle neutron

Pipe Flow of Sphere Suspensions having a Power-Law-Dependent Fluid Matrix

March 5, 2020
Author(s)
Nicos Martys, William L. George, Ryan P Murphy, Kathleen M Weigandt
Measurement and prediction of suspension flow properties in cylindrical geometries represents a significant challenge for both the experimentalist and modeller. In this paper, results of a computational study of suspension flow in a pipe geometry using a

Dynamic Arrest of Adhesive Hard Rod Dispersions

February 7, 2020
Author(s)
Ryan P Murphy, Harold Wickes Hatch, Nathan NMN Mahynski, Vincent K. Shen, Norman J. Wagner
Dynamic arrest transitions of model, thermoreversible dispersions of adhesive hard rods are measured as a function of absolute temperature Τ = 15 -40 °C, aspect ration L/D{approximately equal}3-7, and volume fraction φ0.1-0.5. The critical gel temperature