Experiment suggests friction at root of shear force thickening
Thursday, November 26, 2015 - 10:50
in Physics & Chemistry
(Phys.org)—A combined team of researchers from Cornell University in the U.S. and the University of Edinburgh in the U.K. believes they may have settled the debate on the cause of shear force thickening in colloidal products. In their paper uploaded to the Physical Review Letters website, the researches describe their simple experiment and results and why they believe it settles the debate.