We consider a lamellar phase of bilayer membranes held between two parallel plates and subject to a steady shear. Accounting for the coupling with the shear flow of the short wavelength undulation modes that are responsible for the membrane excess area, we argue that the flow generates an...

The structure and phase behaviour of a colloidal dispersion of plate-like particles are described. The plates are nickel (II) hydroxide and have short-range, repulsive interactions and a low polydispersity. As the concentration of the plates is increased, an equilibrium phase separation between...

The present work is focused on density measurements near the smectic A-cholesteric liquid crystal phase transition for cholesteryl myristate (C<Subscript>14</Subscript>), cholesteryl nonanoate (C<Subscript>9</Subscript>) and binary mixtures of C<Subscript>14</Subscript> and C<Subscript>9</Subscript> and cholesteryl caproate (C<Subscript>6</Subscript>) and C<Subscript>9</Subscript>. The results have evidenced that the transition...</subscript></subscript></subscript></subscript></subscript></subscript>