https://doi.org/10.1140/epjst/e2013-02055-2
Review
Dispersions and mixtures of particles with complex architectures in shear flow
1 Forschungszentrum Jülich, Institute of Complex Systems 3, Leo-Brandt-Str, 52425 Jülich, Germany
2 Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, Universitätsstraße 1, 40225 Düsseldorf, Germany
3 Department of Physics and Astronomy, Laboratory for Acoustics and Thermal Physics, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Celestijnenlaan 200D, Leuven B-3001, Belgium
a e-mail: p.lettinga@fz-juelich.de
Received: 6 September 2013
Revised: 17 September 2013
Published online: 25 November 2013
We review the effect of shear flow on the phase behavior and structure of colloidal dispersions with increasing degree of complexity. We discuss dispersions of colloidal rods, stiff living polymers like wormlike micelles, and colloidal platelets. In addition, a review is presented on sheared binary dispersions. For all cases we discuss the interplay between thermodynamic instabilities and hydrodynamic instabilities.
© EDP Sciences, Springer-Verlag, 2013
