Nucleation of a binary liquid mixture under steady-state shear

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Abstract
Light scattering was used to study nucleation in a quenched binary mixture exposed to a uniform shear. Shear deforms and ruptures droplets once they have grown to sufficient size. In the resulting steady state, the droplets are monodisperse in size. A plot of the cloud point line exhibits two segments of different slopes with a crossover near the temperature corresponding to the Becker-Döring limit. An energy-based argument explains a number of our observations.