Rheology of Biological Complex Fluids and Self-Assembled/Self-Organization systems is one of the most exciting areas in the field of Soft Matter. Complex flow occurs inside living organisms and their remarkable structures are the starting point of biomimetic and bio-engineering. Some examples of this are: the study of the formation of spider silk, since its mechanical structure is stronger than Kevlar; flexoelectricity applied to the description of rheology of the human ear, the formation of film collagen in tissue engineering, since this film involves fluid mechanics; rheology of liquid crystals, and mass transfer for evaporation of solvents. These flows exhibit intriguing physical phenomena, some of which are not seen at the conventional scale. These systems can be modelled in straight, curved, hyperbolic, diverging, converging channels, and other ways. This exciting Research Topic aims to showcase contributions dealing with the flow of biological systems. These include theoretical, experimental, computational and dynamical advances in theoretical rheological characterization and modelling of biological complex fluids such as: (i) Soft Matter, (ii) Liquid crystals, (iii) Blood, (iv) Corporal fluids, (v) Flexo-electricity in membranes, (vi) Micellar solutions, (vii) Electroosmotic flows, (viii) Collagen, as well as colloidal and non-colloidal particle suspensions immersed in both Newtonian and non-Newtonian viscoelastic matrices.
The goal of this Research Topic is to contribute to finding new transport phenomena, rheology of complex fluids, liquid crystal physics, flow physics, effects of rheological behaviour on structural changes (during e.g. shear or dilation), and flow physics' theoretical developments and new applications. New proposals in the field of constitutive modelling in complex fluids are also encouraged.
We welcome submissions of the following article types: Mini Review, Original Research, Perspective, and Review. Areas to be covered in this Research Topic may include, but are not limited to:
- Rheology of complex fluids
- Rheology of liquid crystals
- Rheology of Biological structured fluids
- Rheology of Bio-polymers
- Rheological effects on structure - e.g. rheological measurements of structural changes by scattering techniques
Keywords:
rheology of complex fluids, soft matter, biological fluids, constitutive equation, liquid crystals, self assembled
Important Note:
All contributions to this Research Topic must be within the scope of the section and journal to which they are submitted, as defined in their mission statements. Frontiers reserves the right to guide an out-of-scope manuscript to a more suitable section or journal at any stage of peer review.
Rheology of Biological Complex Fluids and Self-Assembled/Self-Organization systems is one of the most exciting areas in the field of Soft Matter. Complex flow occurs inside living organisms and their remarkable structures are the starting point of biomimetic and bio-engineering. Some examples of this are: the study of the formation of spider silk, since its mechanical structure is stronger than Kevlar; flexoelectricity applied to the description of rheology of the human ear, the formation of film collagen in tissue engineering, since this film involves fluid mechanics; rheology of liquid crystals, and mass transfer for evaporation of solvents. These flows exhibit intriguing physical phenomena, some of which are not seen at the conventional scale. These systems can be modelled in straight, curved, hyperbolic, diverging, converging channels, and other ways. This exciting Research Topic aims to showcase contributions dealing with the flow of biological systems. These include theoretical, experimental, computational and dynamical advances in theoretical rheological characterization and modelling of biological complex fluids such as: (i) Soft Matter, (ii) Liquid crystals, (iii) Blood, (iv) Corporal fluids, (v) Flexo-electricity in membranes, (vi) Micellar solutions, (vii) Electroosmotic flows, (viii) Collagen, as well as colloidal and non-colloidal particle suspensions immersed in both Newtonian and non-Newtonian viscoelastic matrices.
The goal of this Research Topic is to contribute to finding new transport phenomena, rheology of complex fluids, liquid crystal physics, flow physics, effects of rheological behaviour on structural changes (during e.g. shear or dilation), and flow physics' theoretical developments and new applications. New proposals in the field of constitutive modelling in complex fluids are also encouraged.
We welcome submissions of the following article types: Mini Review, Original Research, Perspective, and Review. Areas to be covered in this Research Topic may include, but are not limited to:
- Rheology of complex fluids
- Rheology of liquid crystals
- Rheology of Biological structured fluids
- Rheology of Bio-polymers
- Rheological effects on structure - e.g. rheological measurements of structural changes by scattering techniques
Keywords:
rheology of complex fluids, soft matter, biological fluids, constitutive equation, liquid crystals, self assembled
Important Note:
All contributions to this Research Topic must be within the scope of the section and journal to which they are submitted, as defined in their mission statements. Frontiers reserves the right to guide an out-of-scope manuscript to a more suitable section or journal at any stage of peer review.