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structural properties and dynamics behavior between micellar nematics and
thermotropic nematics including fl ow birefringence, banded textures under
magnetic fi elds, thermorehological responses across IN transitions, and shear-
rheology scaling were discussed in detail.
Wormlike micelle rheology is a clear example of this, and experimental
results for these systems present strong similarities with lyotropic nematic
polymers, including banded textures after cessation of fl ow, nonaligning - to -
aligning transition, damped oscillatory stress transients, and stress scaling
properties of shear stress. Although not included in this review, some interest-
ing biological manifestations, optical and biosensors, thermodynamics, con-
verging and instabilities fl ows, bifurcations, fl uctuations of nematic liquid
crystals are available in the literature (Abukhdeir and Rey, 2008; de Luca and
Rey, 2003, 2004, 2006a-c, 2007; Grecov and Rey, 2003a-c, 2004, 2005, 2006;
Han and Rey, 1993a,b, 1994a-c, 1995a,b; Hwang and Rey, 2006a,b, 2007; Rey,
1990, 1993a,b, 1995, 2000a-c, 2001a,b, 2002, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2010; Rey and
Denn, 1987, 1998a-c, 2002; Rey and Herrera-Valencia, 2010, 2012; Rey et al.,
2004, 2005, 2011; Singh and Rey, 1995; Soule et al., 2009; Tsuji and Rey, 1997,
1998, 2000; Wang and Rey, 1997; Wincure and Rey, 2007; Yan and Rey, 2002,
2003; Zhou et al., 2006). Lastly, lyotropic chiral nematic shear rheology and
texturing can also be described by the modeling methodology presented in
this chapter.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
This work was supported, in part, by the U.S. Offi ce of Basic Energy Sciences,
Department of Energy, grant DE-SC0001412, and by the Petroleum Research
Fund of the American Chemical Society. EHV gratefully acknowledges
financial fellowship support from CONACY-MEXICO (Postdoctoral
Grant/000000000124600 and Postdoctoral Grant/000000000147870).
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