July 1st, at 11:00AM EST

The Double Life of Structured Fluids

In this interview Neil Cunningham will be explaining how our choice of measurement methods of everyday structured fluids such as suspensions, emulsions and gels can benefit from an appreciation of the concept that they live a "double life", alternating between free-flowing liquid behaviour and soft, delicately-structured solid condition, depending on their environment at any given moment. He will then go on to explain how we can select, from a range of testing approaches, methods that describe a product in these two often very different "states" to obtain a comprehensive "structure and flow" profile that can be used for formulation development, benchmarking, competitor comparison and process development.

Neil Cunningham entered the field of rheology through sales and application development roles in the rheometer and viscometer industry. In 1998 he became an independent consultant in the field and has since provided training courses, test method development services and ongoing consultancy and advice to many global corporations in the field of pharmaceuticals, consumer health, medical, cosmetics, foods and many other industries.

Neil is highly experienced in the practical issues facing researchers and quality controllers and possesses an excellent working knowledge of most rheometer and viscometer systems in use today. More recently Neil has opened a laboratory in Hampshire, England, equipped with a range of rheometers and viscometers, offering testing and research services.