P09. Suspensions, MR and ER fluids, smart gels, devices and soft robots

This session focuses on the rheology of complex soft-matter systems—including suspensions, electrorheological (ER) and magnetorheological (MR) fluids, smart gels, as well as their applications in devices and soft robots. We welcome contributions on experimental, theoretical, and computational studies that elucidate the flow behavior, microstructural evolution, and nonlinear viscoelasticity of these systems under external fields (e.g., electric, magnetic, thermal, or mechanical).

Chairs: 

－Takamasa Sakai (The University of Tokyo, Japan),

－Weihua LI (University of Wollongong, Australia),

－Ziliang WU (Zhejiang University, China),

－Yihui ZHANG (Tsinghua University, China),

－Taolin SUN (South China University of Technology, China),

－Xinglong GONG (University of Science and Technology of China, China).