Disk-like Particles under Shear Flow: Understanding the physics behind yielding of colloidal disks in the nematic phase and the mechanics of red blood cell (dis)aggregation KU Leuven
In this thesis, the relation between the tumbling motion of disk-like particles in shear flow and the structure that the particles form is studied for two systems: Gibbsite platelets in the nematic phase and aggregates of two red blood cells. Using time-resolved small-angle X-ray measurements, we investigate the dynamic nonlinear response to Large Amplitude Oscillatory stress and strain of a nematic dispersion of colloidal Gibbsite platelets. By ...