Liquid-crystalline ordering in the solution of partially flexible macromolecules

A.R. Khokhlov and A.N. Semenov

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 1982, vol. 112, issue 3, 605-614

Abstract: The liquid-crystalline ordering in the solution of persistent chains which length, L, is comparable with the length of the effective Kuhn segment, l, is considered by means of a generalization of the Onsager method. The orientational entropy for this case is calculated using the method proposed by I.M. Lifshitz (for another problem) in 1968. It is shown that a slight flexibility of the persistent chain is sufficient for the complete change in the properties of the liquid-crystalline transition: for example, at Ll∼0.1 these properties are more similar to those which are characteristic for the semi-flexible limit (Ll⪢1), than for the rigid rod limit (Ll⪡1), although at such Ll the geometric form of the macromolecule is much closer to the rodlike one.

Date: 1982
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DOI: 10.1016/0378-4371(82)90199-6

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