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PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS
Volume 97, Issue 3, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.97.036101
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We report a universal phase diagram describing the evolution from solidlike networks to flowing nematics for sticky nanotube suspensions under an applied shear stress. Although the nanotubes are strongly non-Brownian, we find features characteristic of first-order phase transitions, including a discontinuity in the nematic order parameter at the isotropic-(para)nematic phase boundary. Using simple physical arguments, we account for the shape of the coexistence curves, as well as the dependence of the order parameter on concentration and stress.
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