Crystal-to-Crystal Transition of Ultrasoft Colloids under Shear KU Leuven
© 2018 authors. Published by the American Physical Society. Ultrasoft colloids typically do not spontaneously crystallize, but rather vitrify, at high concentrations. Combining in situ rheo-small-angle-neutron-scattering experiments and numerical simulations we show that shear facilitates crystallization of colloidal star polymers in the vicinity of their glass transition. With increasing shear rate well beyond rheological yielding, a transition ...