It expands, it contracts, it gets stronger, it lets up — it reacts to changing conditions in formidable and comfortable ways. And the adventures of shear-thickening fluid, invented by University of ...

Researchers using a high-speed camera have captured the moments a fluid reacts like a solid, through a new method of fluid observation under pressurized conditions. They examined fluids that have a ...

Norman Wagner, the University of Delaware Unidel Robert L. Pigford Chair in Chemical Engineering at the University of Delaware, has received the 2018 Sustained Research Prize from the Neutron ...

Barth et al. proposed the use of acoustic perturbations to control shear thickening and analyzed how suspension viscosity varies with ultrasound field strength. Their study yielded the first ...

image: For the first time, researchers have been able capture images providing unprecedented details of how particles behave in a liquid suspension when the phenomenon known as shear thickening takes ...

What do paint, dishwasher detergent, ketchup and blood have in common? All are composed of particles suspended in a carrier liquid and flow when stirred or forced, but remain thick or even gel-like at ...

The next generation of protective equipment is looking a lot less bulky and a lot more fluid. Shear thickening fluids (STFs) are novel field-responsive materials that can be engineered to be useful ...

If you’ve ever whacked the bottom of a ketchup bottle to get that tasty tomato goop flowing, you’ve put some serious physics to work. Ketchup is a non-Newtonian fluid. So are toothpaste, yogurt, ...

For the first time, researchers have been able capture images providing unprecedented details of how particles behave in a liquid suspension when the phenomenon known as shear thickening takes place.