title: Shear-induced shift of spinodal line in entangled polymer blends.
abstract: We study the shear-flow effects on phase separation of entangled polymer blends by incorporating into the chemical potential a nonequilibrium contribution due to the flow. The results are compared with those of a previous analysis by other authors which did not modify the chemical potential but used a different assumption for the stress tensor of the blend.
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Ciencias y Técnicas Físicoquímicas, Facultad de Ciencias, UNED, Senda del Rey, 9, 28040 Madrid, Spain.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Criado-Sancho
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Jou
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Casas-Vázquez
authors.forename: L F
authors.initials: LF
authors.lastname: del Castillo