Liquid-crystalline ordering in the solution of long persistent chains

A.R. Khokhlov and A.N. Semenov

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 1981, vol. 108, issue 2, 546-556

Abstract: The orientational ordering in the solution of long persistent macromolecules is studied by means of the Onsager method. It is shown that the liquid-crystalline transition occurs at significantly higher concentrations and that the order parameter at the transition point is much smaller than for the model of freely-jointed segments. It is concluded that the orientational ordering in the solutions of semiflexible chains depends essentially on the flexibility distribution along the chain contour.

Date: 1981
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DOI: 10.1016/0378-4371(81)90148-5

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