TY  - JOUR
AU  - Ripoll, M.
AU  - Holmqvist, P.
AU  - Winkler, R. G.
AU  - Gompper, G.
AU  - Dhont, J. K. G.
AU  - Lettinga, M. P.
TI  - Attractive Colloidal Rods in Shear Flow
JO  - Physical review letters
VL  - 101
SN  - 0031-9007
CY  - College Park, Md.
PB  - APS
M1  - PreJuSER-813
PY  - 2008
N1  - We thank K. Mussawisade for his collaboration in the initial stage of this project. Financial support by the German Research Foundation (DFG) within SFB TR 6, and the European Network of Excellence SoftComp (Contract No. NMP3-CT-2004-502235) is gratefully acknowledged. M. R. thanks the Spanish MCYT (Project No. FIS2007-65869-C03-03) for partial support.
AB  - The effect of shear flow on the isotropic-nematic phase transition of attractive colloidal rods is investigated by a combination of simulations and experiments. The isotropic phase aligns with the flow, while the nematic phase undergoes a collective rotational motion which frustrates the merging of the coexisting regions. The location of binodals, spinodals, and the tumbling-to-aligning transition line in the shear-rate versus concentration plane are investigated. The phase diagrams in the shear-concentration plane for the various strengths of attractions can be mapped onto a master curve by appropriate scaling.
KW  - J (WoSType)
LB  - PUB:(DE-HGF)16
UR  - <Go to ISI:>//WOS:000260141300070
DO  - DOI:10.1103/PhysRevLett.101.168302
UR  - https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/813
ER  -