Erratum to: Rheol Acta

                    DOI 10.1007/s00397-011-0543-4

The given affiliation “Center for the Molecular Study of Condensed Soft Matter, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, IL 60616, USA” was illegitimately stated by the author of the original article D. W. Mead. The author may be contacted by the email address given in the original article. Furthermore the paper cited as “Mead et al. 2011” has been retracted by the Editors and the Publisher.