Simplified Industrial Formulations. Design Challenges
Goals
1 compare with the formulation guidelines obtained from (1).
3. Apply these methods to simplified industrial dispersion by industrial partners and
- Local scale tribological measurements using AFM.
during flow (4D imaging)
- High resolution confocal microscopy to probe structural development in situ
which aspect of the particles or formulation controls the rheology
the nature of the stress during flow (elastic or viscous), which helps to identify
high frequency rheometry and superposition rheometry, which help identify
- Advanced rheological methods which allow for stress deconvolution such as
the rheological response of the such dispersions, focusing on
2. To further develop a limited number of rheological and structural tools to interrogate
control of shear thinning/thickening and the control of the thixotropic response.
within. The properties aimed for, after discussing with IFPRI members, are the
formulation guidelines to do “more with less” or simplifying formulations from
simple formulations a wide range of behaviors can be ”built in”, i.e. obtaining
changing the properties of the building blocks of the suspensions, so that even in
with near hard interactions, we can widen the range of rheological responses by
- To explore how, moving away from model systems containing spherical colloids
Our goals within the IFPRI project are threefold