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Rheological Characterization Tools: A Review

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Nanophase magnetic materials have been widely contemplated due to their widespread applications in diverse fields. Suspensions of the magnetic nanoparticles like ferrofluids or smart fluids show rapid and reversible transformation between a fluid-like to solid-like state within milliseconds by applying magnetic field. The suspensions of the magnetic nanoparticles show spectacular and tunable changes in rheological properties under the influence of the external applied magnetic field. “Smart fluids” has been an area of academic interest, research, and development that has gained widespread attention from the academic community over the past two decades. A glut of lively research endeavors is intended toward discovering “smarter” fluids’ and toward understanding their underlying physics. Such fluids involve magneto rheological (MR) fluids, electro rheological (ER) fluids, shear thickening fluids, thermo–nanofluids, optically smart fluids, ferrofluids, etc. Among these, MR and ER fluids have received a greater part of the attention owing to intensive earlier discoveries. The transition of the colloidal state from fluidic phase to soft condensed phase and its visco-elastic stimuli under the influence of magnetic field has been thoroughly studied and explained mathematically. The notable firmness, magnetic properties, and precise physical models reveal colloidal structure in transient situations viz. antiseismic damping, magneto–MEMS/ NEMS devices, biomedical invasive treatments, etc. In this chapter, a review of variety of nanoparticles with rheological properties is deliberated with an overview of current research activities on functional, magnetic nanocomposite materials, their methods currently used for nanoalloy and nanocomposite synthesis and characterization.

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  1. Department of Chemistry, Sardar Patel University, Anand, Gujarat, India

    Pragnesh N. Dave

  2. Department of Chemistry, RR Bawa DAV College for Girls, Batala, Punjab, India

    Ekta Khosla

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Dave, P.N., Khosla, E. (2022). Rheological Characterization Tools: A Review. In: Handbook of Magnetic Hybrid Nanoalloys and their Nanocomposites. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-34007-0_21-1

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