Advances in Rheometry

Microfluidic rheometry

The development and growth of microfluidics has stimulated interest in the behaviour of complex liquids in microscale geometries and provided a rich platform for rheometric investigations of non-Newtonian phenomena at small scales. Microfluidic techniques present the rheologist with new opportunities for material property measurement and this review discusses the use of microfluidic devices to ...

Rheometry for Blood Coagulation Studies

This review considers some of the various rheometrical approaches that have been adopted to study blood coagulation, with special reference to the rheological assessment of clotting time and studies of the evolution of viscoelasticity during the course of fibrin polymerization and cross-linking. A common feature of many of these studies is that they attempt to detect a liquid-to-solid transitio...

Advances in Targeted Drug Delivery

Inline ultrasonic rheometry by pulsed Doppler.

This will be a discussion of the non-invasive determination of the viscosity of a non-Newtonian fluid in laminar pipe flow over the range of shear rates present in the pipe. The procedure used requires knowledge of the flow profile in and the pressure drop along a long straight run of pipe. The profile is determined by using a pulsed ultrasonic Doppler velocimeter. This approach is ideal for ma...

Filament-stretching Rheometry of Complex Fluids

■ Abstract Filament-stretching rheometers are devices for measuring the extensional viscosity of moderately viscous non-Newtonian fluids such as polymer solutions. In these devices, a cylindrical liquid bridge is initially formed between two circular end-plates. The plates are then moved apart in a prescribed manner such that the fluid sample is subjected to a strong extensional deformation. As...