Recent development of electro-responsive smart electrorheological fluids
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Published on: October 1, 2007
Yu Zhen Dong1, Yongsok Seo, Hyoung Jin Choi
1Department of Polymer Science and Engineering, Inha University, Incheon 22212, Korea. hjchoi@inha.ac.kr.
Abstract:
The characteristics of an electrorheological (ER) fluid, as a class of smart soft matter, can be actively and accurately tuned between a liquid- and a solid-like phase by the application of an electric field. ER materials used in ER fluids are electrically polarizable particles, which are attracting considerable attention in addition to further research. This perspective reports the latest ER materials along with their rheological understanding and provides a forward-looking summary of the potential future applications of ER technology.
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