Theory of Shear-Induced Melting of Colloidal Crystals
- 3 March 1986
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 56 (9), 945-948
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.56.945
Abstract
We propose a theory of shear-induced melting of colloidal crystals based on a nonequilibrium generalization of first-order freezing theory. The results agree qualitatively with experiment.Keywords
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