Rheological Behavior of Starch Dispersions

Viscoelastic properties of starch dispersions are of interest to better understand their structure (Biliaderis, 1992). In addition, studies on synthetic-particle dispersions (Boersma et al., 1992 Chow and Zukoski, 1995b) showed that they may play a role in understanding their flow behavior. As a reminder, one can anticipate that the viscoelastic behavior of starch dispersions also is influenced very strongly by the volume fraction and state of the granules in the dispersion. 

Evans and Lips (1992) extended the work of Buscall et al. (1982a, 1982b) to relate the shear modulus, G, of a dispersion of spherical particles to various characteristics of the particles and the continuous medium  

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