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Hey, How to determine effective viscosity of a liquid mixture of Newtonian and Non-Newtonian fluid? Is there any empirical method of determining this effective viscosity?
01 November 2019 4,337 4 View
I was reading about Capillary Suspensions, and I was just wondering what is the need of adding a secondary fluid to prevent particle settling when we already have dispersants that can prevent...
16 October 2019 7,294 2 View
Is there any method to determine viscosity of mixture of non-newtonian fluids? When we mix 50% of shear thinning and 50% shear thickening fluids, which property will be more dominant in the...
22 September 2019 5,578 2 View
Can anyone point out the difference between degradation of polymers at low temperatures (around -150 degree celsius) and degradation of polymers at high temperatures. And also can anyone highlight...
22 May 2017 7,227 10 View
I am presently working on the synthesis of ZnO nanorods. I would like to know on what factors does the diameter and length of the nanorod depend upon? Is it dependent on pH, temperature, retention...
12 May 2017 1,723 1 View
I wanted some suggestions on how to increase the C:N ratio of a biomass. My biomass sample has 51% C and 17% N.
28 March 2017 1,871 4 View
Theoretically speaking, entropy should increase while mixing two ideal mixtures (from Second law of Thermodynamics). But when mixing happens at constant pressure, (deltaH) =(delta Q) and thus...
14 March 2017 796 8 View
Some papers, mention that with decrease in nanoparticle size, thermal conductivity of nanofluid increases. But some papers mention the same in the opposite way, that is, thermal conductivity...
01 March 2017 1,143 2 View
Is the driving force for diffusion chemical potential and not concentration gradient? Is it possible that diffusion happens in such a way that transfer is from high potential to low potential but...
27 February 2017 5,488 9 View
I was recently going through a topic on colloids and I came across this topic known as Patchy Colloids. So can anyone let me know about this patchy colloid and where does this patchy colloid find use?
20 February 2017 6,058 2 View
I just wanted to know what will happen when we decrease the particle size of coal and then use it for combustion? Will the heating value of the powdered form be different.? Will the ignition...
15 February 2017 2,147 2 View
I have been trying to synthesize copper nanoparticles in open atmosphere by reducing copper nitrate using NaBH4 and using collagen as a capping agent. I had few doubts regarding the order of...
10 December 2016 3,721 4 View
It is known that increasing the size of the nanoparticle, increases the wavelength at which surface plasmon resonance occurs? But can anyone let me know what is the reason behind this? And how...
30 November 2016 7,748 4 View
Can anyone explain me the difference between Langmuir Blodgett film, self assembled monolayers and layer by layer deposition(LbL).
30 November 2016 6,519 3 View
I had a question on removal of CO2 from the atmosphere. What do we do after adsorbing CO2 with the help of nanoparticles? Is it like we force the CO2 into the ground by a process known as...
07 November 2016 4,634 2 View
In reverse micelle synthesis, we prepare two solutions with different reactants and let these two solutions mix so that there is exchange of reactants. But is reverse micelle synthesis possible...
25 October 2016 2,117 3 View
