Research Article

Structural Transitions in Sheared Electrically Stabilized Colloidal Crystals

Figure 3

Stress as a function of the shear rate for suspensions at four volume fractions of 310 nm diameter silica particles dialyzed to equilibrium against 10−3 M KCl from Fagan and Zukoski [8]. The solid lines are a fit with the free parameters given in Figure 4.
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