On The Orientational Ordering of Flexible Mesogenic Molecules
- 1 June 1982
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Molecular Crystals and Liquid Crystals
- Vol. 82 (3) , 73-79
- https://doi.org/10.1080/01406568208070163
Abstract
A general discussion of orientational ordering of mesogenic molecules with conformational flexibility is presented. It is emphasized that internal conformational and external reorientation motions can be separated in a local frame in which a local order tensor of a rigid subunit is well-defined. The local order tensor may be diagonal and its temperature dependence can therefore be compared with the molecular field theory of rigid molecules.Keywords
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