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Shear-Induced Isotropic-to-Nematic Phase Transition In Equilibrium Polymers
Published 1994 · Materials Science
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We report on a first-order isotropic-to-nematic phase transition induced by shear in concentrated solutions of elongated flexible wormlike micelles. As shear is applied to a disordered micellar solution, the transition shows up in steady-shear experiments as a kink in the shear stress behaviour. Using small-angle neutron scattering under shear, we show that beyond the transition rate, a nematic phase manifests itself by the growth of crescentlike scattering patterns in the direction perpendicular to the flow. A dynamical phase diagram is finally proposed for this system of equilibrium polymers.