We applied shear to a silica nanoparticle dispersion in a microfluidic jet device and
observed direction-dependent structure along and across the flow direction. The
asymmetries of the diffraction patterns were evaluated by x-ray cross correlation analysis.
For different Rayleigh nozzle sizes and shapes, we measured the decay of the shear-
induced ordering after the cessation of the shear. At large tube sizes and small shear rates,
the characteristic times of the decay become longer, but Péclet-weighted times do not scale …