1 Criticality for shear-induced gelation of charge-stabilized colloids Delong Xie a,b , Hua Wu a , Alessio Zaccone a , Leonie Braun c , Huanqin Chen b and Massimo Morbidelli *a a. Institute for Chemical and Bioengineering, Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, ETH Zurich, 8093 Zurich, Switzerland b. School of Chemistry and Chemical engineering, South China University of Technology, 510640 Guangzhou, Guangdong, China c. BASF SE, GKT/S - B001, 67056 Ludwigshafen, Germany Electronic supplementary information Part 1: The typical liquid-like and solid-like states of the colloidal systems after passing through the z-MC. Note that the solid-like sample is of cylindrical shape, which results from the shape of the outlet tube after passing through the z-MC. Supplementary Material (ESI) for Soft Matter This journal is © The Royal Society of Chemistry 2010