| EPSRC Reference: |
GR/M07250/01 |
| Title: |
THEORETICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATION OF COLLOIDAL PARTICLE SCATTERING & AGGREGATION |
| Principal Investigator: |
Murray, Professor B |
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| Department: |
School of Food Science and Nutrition |
| Organisation: |
University of Leeds |
| Scheme: |
Standard Research (Pre-FEC) |
| Starts: |
01 May 1998 |
Ends: |
31 December 2000 |
Value (£): |
183,069
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| EPSRC Research Topic Classifications: |
| Complex fluids & soft solids |
Rheology |
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| Manufacturing |
Food and Drink |
| Pharmaceuticals and Biotechnology |
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This programme involves development of computer programs which simulate experimentally observed particel collisions such as occur in a wide array of technologically important colloidal materials, e.g., foodstuffs, paints, coatings, pharmaceuticals, personal care products, cosmetics, cleaning agents, etc. Such materials may be described as soft solids . The balance of attractive and repulsive forces between colliding particles controls the state of aggregation of the particle system, which in turn determines how far the flow properties of the material vary from elastic, solid -like behaviour to flowable, soft , liquid-like behaviour. Control over such flow properties is vital for the successful processing and storage of such materials.Comparison of theory with experiment will be used to obtain a mathematical description of how the interaction forces vary with the flow and solution (i.e., processing) conditions. Systems stabilised by absorbed films of wiely used milk proteins will be studied. The outcomes will be a new facility for fundamentally assessing the interaction forces between real and colloidal particles (under realistic flow conditions), how these forces are affected by flow and solution conditions and how these forces may be related to the structural properties of the absorbed layer of stabilising molecules.
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http://www.leeds.ac.uk |