How to prepare shear-thickening fluid which can be uesd polishing applicattion?

More Yanjun Han's questions See All

How to make ppb level concentration ?

Hi, I've N2 gas cylinder and 100 ppm NH3 gas cylinder. With these two cylinders, I'd like to make a ppb level (1- 100) concentration. Any idea how to do that?

01 February 2021 3,264 2 View

What will be the possible reasons to cause no bands on gel electrophoresis?

Hi, I am doing RNA extraction for my final year project. After extraction of RNA by using conventional method, I did quantification and qualification of RNA by using Nanodrop spec and gel...

11 January 2021 8,775 10 View

How to increase the attachment of the HEK293t cells to the glass coverslips or cell dishes?

Hey guys, I always have problems with the attachment of HEK293t cells to glass coverslips while doing IFA. They are so easy to detach from the coverslips while washing. The coverslips are already...

30 December 2020 8,381 3 View

Can anyone advise me on how to amplify V4 region of fecal DNA of dss-induced colitic mice for microbiota profiling?

Animals were fed DSS via drinking water and fecal samples were collected and DNA was isolated using Qiagen stool DNA isolation kit. The V4 region of extracted DNA was amplified with specific...

20 December 2020 1,739 3 View

Looking for a glass slide with very low Autofluorescence (GFP)?

Does anyone know any glass slides (thickness 0.1 to 1mm) that have very low autofluoresence (GFP). I am doing a very sensitive experiment that require my glass substrate to be as low fluoresence...

28 November 2020 1,917 6 View

Function of SDS in Northern Blot washing step?

In Northern blot, we normally use either 2*SSC+0.1% SDS or 0.1*SSC+0.1% SDS in washing step. Does anyone know what's the function of the SDS in the washing buffer? Thank you in advance

26 November 2020 2,432 1 View

How to calculate the analytical solution for the HYDRUS-3D model simulation of water and salt movement in soil?

Suppose an agricultural field with uniform soil texture and salinization. The groundwater depth is 20 meters, assuming that the depth of the groundwater and the concentration of salts remain...

25 November 2020 2,382 4 View

Protein concentration decrease after dialysis?

Recently I have been involved in this problem: After expressed by adding IPTG, lysed with B-PER, and resolved with Buffer B (8M urea), incubate with Ni-NTA beads, everything looks fine. When I...

21 November 2020 7,416 3 View

Recommend equipment of in vivo recording in mice brain?

Hello, I am trying to set up an in vivo recording system in mice brain. Which company do you recommend? Neuralynx? TDT? NeuroNexus? Which one do you guys use and why? Please let me know. Thank you!

12 November 2020 2,508 1 View

Looking for a method that aggregate Nano beads on demond?

I am working on a droplet based digital biosensing project. Assume I have some droplets (size 30-40um in diameter), each droplet contians aroun 10-20 Nano beads (100-300nm in diamter). The surface...

28 October 2020 5,761 7 View

Why are the velocities so high in my Boussinesq approximation Fluent simulation?

Hello, I have a mechanism where air rises due to convective flows. In this simulation, nothing is driving the air except this. I understand that the Boussinesq approximation only works for small...

02 March 2021 4,910 3 View

What is the characteristic length to determine the Reynolds number for the scattered turbulent fluid flow?

Dear all, I just saw this example in FB on the difference between laminar flow and turbulent flow. The flow from a pipe hits the sink and scattered. The flow from the pipe is characterized as...

02 March 2021 1,999 5 View

Can we distinguish the type of free fluid inside the pelvic and abdominal cavities whether blood or serous fluid using the ultrasound?

during ultrasound examination of acute abdomen, sometimes we see free fluid , can we know the type of fluid ,whether blood or not , using ultrasound only? if yes , what are the sonographic...

01 March 2021 7,476 4 View

How much pressure we can reduce at the outlet to avoid Reverse Flow?

I am simulating Heat Exchanger. I have tried and tested all the methods to resolve this issue from the internet like refining mesh, improving skewness and orthogonal quality ,extending outlet to...

01 March 2021 6,985 3 View

How to show arrows over the streamlines in CFD-post?

I follow this to make streamlines like the photos attached below: (software- CFD post-processing) First I plot the 2D streamline over a surface "streamline 1". them I plot a vector by the...

01 March 2021 8,668 3 View

How to increase mesh quality of a cfd model in ansys fluent?

How can one improve mesh skewness, orthogonality, aspect ratio?

28 February 2021 7,730 3 View

No title

I am trying to find how to know the density needed for a pva electrospinning in a 0.6mm neddle, the electrospinning will be from top to bottom and the problem I really have is the solution because...

25 February 2021 2,615 3 View

Why do the air flow results vary totally when adding scalar in CFD ?

Dear All, We are using Autodesk cfd to calculate the air flow in a single sided naturally ventilated room, where air flow depends only on buoyancy due to temperature difference between inside and...

25 February 2021 9,602 4 View

Is the a way to contol flow (Flow velocity) without impacting pressure value?

I have a pipe with 10 mm in Diameter and 2 bar pressure, the fluid velocity is 200 m/s, the fluid is air. is there a way to reduce velocity without affecting the pressure value?

25 February 2021 7,187 3 View

How do you mesh a thin solid in Fluent?

Hello, I have used the shell function on SpaceClaim to create thin solids for the model I am studying. These are contained within an enclosure for my study. I chose this approach as it avoids the...

24 February 2021 8,856 3 View

Mounir Bouaifi

Yanjun,

Concerning systems with abrasive properties , there are particle based shear thickening systems (colloidal silica particles suspended in ethylene glycol or polyethylene glycol ).

The particles are generally selected from a number of the groups which include titanium oxide, calcium carbonate, cornstarch, synthetically and naturally occurring minerals, polymers or a mixture of these.

Carrier fluids can be water, ethylene glycol (EG) and polyethylene glycol (PEG). EG or PEG are the most widely used due to their combination of stability, high boiling point, polarity and non-flammable properties.

Take a look at the attached paper for more information.

Regards

Yanjun Han

Dear Mounir Bouaifi ,

Thank you for your advice. It's very helpful to me!

Best Regards