Polydomain growth at isotropic-nematic transitions in liquid crystalline polymers
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Polydomain growth at isotropic-nematic transitions in liquid crystalline polymers.
We studied the dynamics of isotropic-nematic transitions in liquid crystalline polymers by integrating time-dependent Ginzburg-Landau equations. In a concentrated solution of rodlike polymers, the rotational diffusion constant D(r) of the polymer is severely suppressed by the geometrical constraints of the surrounding polymers so that the rodlike molecules diffuse only along their rod direction...
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عنوان ژورنال: Physical Review E
سال: 2011
ISSN: 1539-3755,1550-2376
DOI: 10.1103/physreve.83.061711