Flow dichroism in critical colloidal fluids
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Flow dichroism in critical colloidal fluids.
Due to long-range correlations and slow dynamics of concentration fluctuations in the vicinity of the gas-liquid critical point, shear flow is very effective in distorting the microstructure of near-critical fluids. The anisotropic nature of the shear-field renders the microstructure highly anisotropic, leading to dichroism. Experiments on the dichroic behavior can thus be used to test theoreti...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Physical Review E
سال: 2001
ISSN: 1063-651X,1095-3787
DOI: 10.1103/physreve.63.061401