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This box contains the supplementary material to the paper Kayaking and wagging of liquid crystals under shear: comparing director and mesogen motions by Y.G. Tao, W.K. den Otter and W.J. Briels, published in Europhys. Lett. 86, 56005 (June 2009).

A sheared suspension of rods (with one rod-end in red and the other rod-end in green) in the kayaking regime
Movie of a sheared nematic liquid crystal in the kayaking regime (mpg, 29 MB)

End-to-end vectors (blue dots) and director (red line) of a sheared nematic in the kayaking regime
Movie of the director and end-to-end vectors of rods in the kayaking regime (mpg, 11 MB)

End-to-end vectors (blue dots) and director (red line) of a sheared nematic in the wagging regime
Movie of director and end-to-end vectors of rods in the wagging regime (mpg, 21 MB)
Movie of end-to-end vectors of five rods in the wagging regime (mpg, 7 MB)

This box contains the supplementary material to the manuscript Alignment and segregation of bidisperse colloids in a shear-thinning viscoelastic fluid under shear flow by I.S. Santos de Oliveira, W.K. den Otter and W.J. Briels.

Bidsperse colloinds in a sheared visco-elastic solvent
Movie of bidisperse colloids in a sheared visco-elastic solvent,
with the colloids initially randomly distributed in a plane (mpg, 95MB)