Measurements of dynamics in an orientationally anisotropic system

(cont.) coefficients, and these were compared to the "effective" coefficients yielded by the former. Because scattering from a nematic domain is limited to a narrow azimuthal range, while an isotropic domain scatters uniformly to all azimuthal angles, separate but simultaneous , measurements of dynamics in coexisting isotropic and orientationally ordered domains were possible. The observed correlation functions indicated that the flow-aligned, equilibrium nematic phase predominant just above the ordering transition was supplanted by a surface-aligned, nonequilibrium, "jammed" phase as the concentration of rods was further increased.

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Physics.

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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2004

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• Borthwick, Matthew A. (Matthew Alan), 1973-

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• Simon G.J. Mochrie and J. David Litster.

• Physics.

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