Rheology of Lyotropic Lamellar Phases
- 1 October 1993
- journal article
- Published by IOP Publishing in Europhysics Letters
- Vol. 24 (1) , 53-58
- https://doi.org/10.1209/0295-5075/24/1/009
Abstract
The rheological behaviour of lyotropic lamellar phases is studied as a function of the membrane repeating distance. The steady-state rheology is described as a consequence of the so-called orientation diagram described previously. Three distinct regions of different orientations are described, which are separated by two out-of-equilibrium transitions. We show that these transitions can be either discontinuous (subcritical) or continuous. In one of these transitions, one can go continuously from one regime to the other through a bifurcation point.Keywords
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