Published January 1999
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Journal article
A mesoscopic theory of liquid crystalline polymers
Creators
- 1. Materials Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and Department of Chemical Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, California, 94720-1462 (United States)
Description
A kinetic equation for polydomains is used to develop a formal structure for a mesoscopic constitutive theory of textured liquid crystalline polymers. The lowest-order approximation for the texture terms leads to the Larson and Doi (1991) theory, but with a different meaning for the model parameters. Predicted macroscopic order parameters are in the range observed experimentally. copyright 1999 Society of Rheology
Additional details
Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- Journal of Rheology
- Journal Volume
- 43
- Journal Issue
- 1
- Journal Page Range
- p. 111-124
- ISSN
- 0148-6055
- CODEN
- JORHD2
INIS
- Country of Publication
- United States
- Country of Input or Organization
- United States
- INIS RN
- 30021335
- Subject category
- S75: CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS, SUPERCONDUCTIVITY AND SUPERFLUIDITY; S74: ATOMIC AND MOLECULAR PHYSICS;
- Descriptors DEI
- KINETIC EQUATIONS; LIQUID CRYSTALS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; ORDER PARAMETERS; POLYMERS; TEXTURE
- Descriptors DEC
- CRYSTALS; EQUATIONS; FLUIDS; LIQUIDS
- Proposed descriptors and Free-text terms
- LIQUID CRYSTALLINE POLYMER; CONSTITUTIVE EQUATIONS