Apparatus for the investigation of liquid systems in a shear gradient by small angle neutron scattering (SANS)
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2014 A Couette-type apparatus has been constructed which allows the observation of small angle neutron scattering from fluids in a constant shear gradient. Typical systems which can be investigated by this apparatus are polymer solutions and melts, anisotropic biopolymers, viruses in solution and various colloidal liquids. Revue Phys. Appl.19 (1984) 759-763 SEPTEMBRE 1984,
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