Shear-induced collapse of the dilute lamellar phase

Ramaswamy , Sriram (1992) Shear-induced collapse of the dilute lamellar phase Physical Review Letters, 69 (1). pp. 112-115. ISSN 0031-9007

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Official URL: http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.69.112

Related URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.69.112

Abstract

I show that a dilute, sterically stabilized lyotropic smectic liquid crystal, subjected to a sufficiently large velocity gradient in the plane of the layers, will undergo a phase separation, with regions of reduced layer spacing coexisting with regions devoid of any layer material. The critical shear rate for this transition should go as (layer spacing)-3.

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