Viscoelasticity in dense hard sphere colloids
- 5 April 1993
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 70 (14), 2178-2181
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.70.2178
Abstract
We present a new microscopic theory for the frequency (ω) and density (φ) dependent complex shear viscosity η(φ,ω) of dense hard sphere colloids near equilibrium. The predictions are in good agreement with experimental results for silica spheres dissolved in cyclohexane.Keywords
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