LAMELLAR STRUCTURES INDUCED BY COUPLED ELECTROMAGNETIC AND SHEAR FIELDS: A DEFINING CHARACTER OF ER/MR ACITIVITY

Abstract

In this article it will be demonstrated that columns of particles bridging the electrodes are not the characteristic feature of ER fluids under field. Instead a higher level of order, particle lamellae, must develop under shear and E field if a suspension is to be a legetimate ER fluid.