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Fracture of jammed colloidal suspensions (2015)
Journal Article
Smith, M. (2015). Fracture of jammed colloidal suspensions. Scientific Reports, 5, Article 14175. https://doi.org/10.1038/srep14175

Concentrated colloidal suspensions display dramatic rises in viscosity, leading to jamming and granulation, with increasing shear rate. It has been proposed that these effects result from inter particle friction, as lubrication forces are overcome. T... Read More about Fracture of jammed colloidal suspensions.

Mechanical vibrations of pendant liquid droplets (2015)
Journal Article
Temperton, R. H., Smith, M. I., & Sharp, J. S. (2015). Mechanical vibrations of pendant liquid droplets. European Physical Journal E, 38, Article 79. https://doi.org/10.1140/epje/i2015-15079-2

A simple optical deflection technique was used to monitor the vibrations of microlitre pendant droplets of deuterium oxide, formamide, and 1,1,2,2-tetrabromoethane. Droplets of different volumes of each liquid were suspended from the end of a microli... Read More about Mechanical vibrations of pendant liquid droplets.

Shear banding in drying films of colloidal nanoparticles (2015)
Journal Article
Yang, B., Sharp, J. S., & Smith, M. I. (2015). Shear banding in drying films of colloidal nanoparticles. ACS Nano, 9(4), 4077-4084. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsnano.5b00127

Drying suspensions of colloidal nanoparticles exhibit a variety of interesting strain release mechanisms during film formation. These result in the selection of characteristic length scales during failure processes such as cracking and subsequent del... Read More about Shear banding in drying films of colloidal nanoparticles.