“…There is much current interest in shear-induced transformations and ordering in complex fluids, including surfactant lyotropic liquid crystalline phases (Berret, Roux, Port & Lindner, 1994;Mang, Kumar & Hammouda, 1994;Safinya et al, 1993;Penfold, Staples, Lodi & Tucker, 1995;Lin et al, 1996), thermotropic liquid crystals (Safinya, Sirota & Piano, 1991) and polymer melts (Koppi, Tirrell, Bates, Almdal & Colby, 1992;Koppi, Tirrell & Bates, 1993), using both neutron and X-ray scattering techniques. Due to the wide variety and subtlety in micellar phases, a larger number of shear-induced transitions have been observed in amphiphilic systems.…”