title: Helicopter rotation and smectic-isotropic coexistence of strongly attractive rods.
abstract: Hydrodynamic simulations of strongly attractive rodlike colloids are performed with and without shear flow. In the absence of flow, the isotropic-nematic coexistence becomes isotropic-smectic A, and the interfacial properties clearly vary with increasing attraction strength. In the presence of shear flow, a new collective rotation appears in which the director rotates in the vorticity-flow plane in a similar fashion to the movement of the rotor of a helicopter.
authors: Theoretical Soft Matter and Biophysics, Institute of Complex Systems, Forschungszentrum Jülich, D-52425 Jülich, Germany. m.ripoll@fz-juelich.de
authors: Marisol
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authors: Ripoll