Experimental Studies of Instabilities Near the Sol-Gel Transition

This master thesis presents a new experimental way to dynamically determinerheological properties of a complex fluid. The fluid investigated is asuspension of the synthetic clay mineral laponite of 3 wt%. This is mixedtogether with distilled water or a NaCl solution with concentrations bellow10^2 M....

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Main Author: Hox, Kristian
Format: Others
Language:English
Published: Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet, Institutt for fysikk 2012
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Online Access:http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:no:ntnu:diva-18888