Theory of shear-induced melting of colloidal crystals

Ramaswamy, Sriram ; Renn, Scot R. (1986) Theory of shear-induced melting of colloidal crystals Physical Review Letters, 56 (9). pp. 945-948. ISSN 0031-9007

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Official URL: http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.56.945

Related URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.56.945

Abstract

We propose a theory of shear-induced melting of colloidal crystals based on a nonequilibrium generalization of first-order freezing theory. The results agree qualitatively with experiment.

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