The manipulation of cells and particles suspended in viscoelastic fluids in microchannels
has drawn increasing attention, in part due to the ability for single-stream three-dimensional …

Recently, research on particle migration in non-Newtonian viscoelastic fluids has gained
considerable attention. In a viscoelastic fluid, three dimensional (3D) particle focusing can …

The dynamics and deformations of immersed flexible fibers are at the heart of important
industrial and biological processes, induce peculiar mechanical and transport properties in …

The rich diversity of man-made complex fluids and naturally occurring biofluids is opening
up new opportunities for investigating their flow behavior and characterizing their …

Shear flow is ubiquitous. Not only is it arguably the most widely-used deformation type to
characterise complex fluids in rheological studies but also, in practice, the deformation most …

The microfluidic flow is typically laminar due to the dominant viscous effects. At Reynolds
numbers far below 1 (Re≪ 1), the fluid inertia can be neglected. For the steady flow of …

Polymer solutions are considered dilute when polymer chains in a solution do not interact
with each other. One important step in the characterization of these systems is the …

There are so many non-Newtonian fluids in our daily life, such as milk, blood, cytoplasm,
and mucus, most of which are viscoelastic heterogeneous liquid containing cells, inorganic …

In this work, we present new insights related to a debate on the morphological structure of
hydroxyethyl cellulose (HEC) molecules when dissolved in water, ie, whether HEC adopts a …

The rheological characterisation of liquids finds application in several fields ranging from
industrial production to the medical practice. Conventional rheometers are the gold standard …