Complex fluids in animal survival strategies

“ Nanoparticles in complex fluids ”

of a dissertation by Ewelina Kalwarczyk A modern, twenty-first-century chemistry, not only continues the research conducted in previous centuries, but also brings together various branches of science and technology. The goal of this approach is usually to create new materials characterized by an interesting combination of physicochemical properties. In my studies, I followed this trend and appl...

Survival of Bordetella pertussis in Tissue Culture of Animal Cells

Interfacial Dynamics in Complex Fluids

Complex fluids refer to those with internal microstructures whose evolution affects the macroscopic dynamics of the material, especially the rheology [7]. Examples include polymer solutions and melts, liquid crystals, gels and micellar solutions. Such materials often have great practical utilities since the microstructure can be manipulated via processing flow to produce outstanding mechanical,...

Microfluidics of Complex Fluids

Microfluidics is very important in the world of BioMEMS, particularly for lab-ona-chip devices. There are many unusual differences from conventional fluidics, such as the significance of surface forces, the high shear/extensional rate, the high heat transfer rate, the low Reynolds number, and the high Weissenberg number. In this study, aqueous solutions of high molecular-weight polymers, polyet...

Microrheology of complex fluids

The field of microrheology is concerned with how materials store and dissipate mechanical energy as a function of length scale. Recent developments in the theory and instrumentation of the microrheology of complex fluids are reviewed. Equal emphasis is given to the physical phenomena probed, advances in instrumentation, and specific experimental systems in which this field has already had an im...