1. Jetted mixtures of particle suspensions and resins.
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Hoath, S. D., Hsiao, W. -K., Hutchings, I. M., and Tuladhar, T. R.
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MIXTURES , *SUSPENSIONS (Chemistry) , *GUMS & resins , *PARTICLE size distribution , *NEWTONIAN fluids - Abstract
Drop-on-demand (DoD) ink-jetting of hard particle suspensions with volume fraction Φ ~ 0.25 has been surveyed using 1000 ultra-high speed videos as a function of particle size (d90 = 0.8--3.6 μm), with added 2 wt. % acrylic (250 kDa) or 0.5 wt. % cellulose (370 kDa) resin, and also compared with Newtonian analogues. Jet break-off times from 80 μm diameter nozzles were insensitive (120 ± 10 μs) to particle size, and resin jet break-off times were not significantly altered by >30 wt. % added particles. Different particle size grades can be jetted equally well in practice, while resin content effectively controls DoD break-off times. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2014
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