Tunable rigidity materials have potentially widespread implications in robotic technologies.
They enable morphological shape change while maintaining structural strength, and can …

Electrorheological (ER) suspensions, typically composed of nonconducting or weakly
conducting particles dispersed in an insulating liquid, undergo dramatic, reversible changes …

Suspensions of polarizable particles in nonpolarizable solvents form fibrillated structures in
strong electric fields. The resulting increase in viscosity of these" electrorheological" fluids …

Writing a book on smart materials bears a certain semblance to purchasing a high-end
laptop—due to rapid advances in the field, it is tempting to postpone the decision every six …

A simple model for the rheological behavior of concentrated colloidal dispersions is
developed. For a suspension of Brownian hard spheres there are two contributions to the …

The interparticle forces and resulting shear stresses in a magnetorheological fluid are
calculated. The field due to a linear chain of particles in a fixed average magnetic induction …

Forces between particles aligned into chains by an applied electric field in an
electrorheological (ER) fluid are calculated using finite‐element techniques and …

Electrorheological (ER) fluids, consisting of solid particles dispersed in an insulating liquid,
display the special characteristic of electric-field-induced rheological variations. Nearly six …

Electrorheological (ER) materials are suspensions of specialized, micron-sized particles in
nonconducting oils. When electric fields are applied to ER materials, they exhibit dramatic …

We describe and determine the static and dynamic (Bingham) yield stresses in an
electrorheological (ER) fluid from a microstructural model. The model relates both these …