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Controlling anomalous stresses in soft field-responsive systems

Soft Condensed Matter 2016-08-15 v1

Abstract

We report a new phenomenon occurring in field-responsive suspensions: shear-induced anomalous stresses. Competition between a rotating field and a shear flow originates a multiplicity of anomalous stress behaviors in suspensions of bounded dimers constituted by induced dipoles. The great variety of stress regimes includes non-monotonous behaviors, multi-resonances, negative viscosity effect and blockades. The reversibility of the transitions between the different regimes and the self-similarity of the stresses make this phenomenon controllable and therefore applicable to modify macroscopic properties of soft condensed matter phases

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0003023,
  title  = {Controlling anomalous stresses in soft field-responsive systems},
  author = {D. Reguera and J. M. Rubí and A. Pérez-Madrid},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0003023},
  year   = {2016}
}

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5 pages, 6 figures, submitted to PRE

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