I'm looking for a shear-thickening materials for my work. The only one I could find in the internet was corn starch. Is there any material other than corn starch? plz let me know. Thank you.
Looking for a shear-thickening materials
Nov 30, 2003
2 Replies
Try looking again using the term "dilatant", which is another term for shear thickening. Make sure that you really have shear thickening and not rheopexy (time dependent behavior).
John
I think HPMC (hydroxypropyl methyl cellulose) is shear-thickening also.
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