Research Article

Structural Transitions in Sheared Electrically Stabilized Colloidal Crystals

Figure 6

Reduced stress as a function of the reduced shear rate, for the 310 nm suspensions in Figure 3, at different volume fractions . The flow curves of the volume fractions collapse onto a single master curve, when the shear stress is scaled by the yield stress of the ordered phase and the shear rate is replaced by . This scaling procedure is similar to the elastic scaling as established by Fagan and Zukoski [8].
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