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Soft Matter Facility (SoMF)

Texas A&M University College of Engineering

TA Instruments DHR-2 Rheometer

 

Capabilities:

  • Viscosity flow curve, shear stress, strain, phase angle storage and loss modulus
  • Viscoelasticity, yield stress, thixotropy, creep compliance and stress relaxation behavior

Features:

  • Torque range: 0 to 200 mN.m
  • Frequency range: 10-7 to 100 Hz
  • Temperature range: RT to 200°C
  • Maximum heating rate: 20°C/min

Publications involving the Rheometer system in the experimental conditions:

  • Study of the viscosity, yield stress, and thixotropy of inks for 3D printing
    • Structure–Processing–Property Relationships of 3D Printed Porous Polymeric Materials | ACS Materials Au
    • Morphology map-guided identification of bijel ink for producing conductive porous structures | Matter
    • 3D Printed CO2‐Based Triblock Copolymers and Post‐Printing Modification | Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • Thermo-mechanical characterization of salogels
    • Temperature- and creep-resistant Diels-Alder salogels for shape stabilization of salt hydrate phase change materials |Journal of Materials Chemistry A
    • Hybrid polymer salogels for reversible entrapment of salt-hydrate-based thermal energy storage materials |ACS Applied Engineering Materials
    • Strong, thermo-reversible salogels with boronate ester bonds as thermal energy storage materials |Journal of Materials Chemistry A

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