The aim of present study was to determine the viscoelastic properties of the model mixtures of the selected pasted polysaccharides. The initial material was maize starch (SK), mixed with guar gum (GG). Rheological tests were performed in time domain. Theoretical analysis covered adaptation of some achievements of phenomenological theory of viscoelasticity, which were applied during interpretati...

Scant rheological information is available regarding home reliners (liner type denture adhesives). We evaluated 6 different home reliners in regard to their viscoelastic properties, water absorption and solubility. Dynamic viscoelastic properties and changes over time were determined using a dynamic viscoelastometer, while weight changes, absorption, and solubility during immersion in water wer...

Bulk rheological properties of viscoelastic fluids have been extensively studied in macroscopic shearing geometries. However, little is known when an active microscopic probe is used to locally perturb them far from the linear-response regime. Using a colloidal particle dragged periodically by scanning optical tweezers through a viscoelastic fluid, we investigate both, its linear and nonlinear ...

Spruce galactoglucomannan is a wood-derived polysaccharide with a modest molar mass that has recently been made available in kg-scale for research and development of value-added products. To promote the application of spruce galactoglucomannans in, for example, food products, it is vital to understand also the rheological behaviour of the mixtures of galactoglucomannans with other polysaccharid...

The main objective of the present work was to synthesis polyamide 6 through anionic polymerization of ε-caprolactam in an internal mixer. The reaction time and the rheological properties of samples during the polymerization were studied. The samples were characterized by Thermo Gravimetry Analysis (TGA), Differential Scanning Calorimeter (DSC) and FT-IR spectrometer. The melt flow behavior and ...

Emulsion stability, viscoelastic rheological properties and particle size distribution of French dressing samples formulated with two types of commercial modified starch have been investigated. The product’s usual thickening agents, xanthan and guar gum, were 100% substituted by (2, 2.2%) of acetylated distarch adipate (ADA) and hydroxypropylated distarch phosphate (HDP) from waxy maize starch....

– We use a lattice Boltzmann (LB) kinetic scheme for modelling amphiphilic fluids that correctly predicts rheological effects in flow. No macroscopic parameters are included in the model. Instead, three-dimensional hydrodynamic and rheological effects are emergent from the underlying particulate conservation laws and interactions. We report evidence of shear thinning and viscoelastic flow for a...

Red blood cells (RBCs) have highly deformable viscoelastic membranes exhibiting complex rheological response and rich hydrodynamic behavior governed by special elastic and bending properties and by the external/internal fluid and membrane viscosities. We present a multiscale RBC model that is able to predict RBC mechanics, rheology, and dynamics in agreement with experiments. Based on an analyt...

The recent experiments of Crocker et al. [Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 888 (2000)] suggest that microrheological measurements obtained from the correlated fluctuations of widely-separated probe particles determine the rheological properties of soft, complex materials more accurately than do the more traditional particle autocorrelations. This presents an interesting problem in viscoelastic dynamics. We...

The purpose of this study was to create a polymer phantom mimicking the mechanical properties of soft tissues using experimental tests and rheological models. Multifrequency Magnetic Resonance Elastography (MMRE) tests were performed on the present phantom with a pneumatic driver to characterize the viscoelastic (μ, η) properties using Voigt, Maxwell, Zener and Springpot models. To optimize the...