This review discusses the physical properties of nematic, cholesteric, and smectic liquid
crystals. Molecular theories of the liquid crystal phases are discussed and the molecular …

8.3. Evidence for Rouse dynamics ðM, McÞ................................................... 290 8.4. The three
regimes of spin–lattice relaxation dispersion in entangled polymer melts, solutions and …

We assume that (1) the local state of order in the isotropic phase is a symmetric traceless
tensor Qαβ, proportional to the anisotropic part of a tensor property such as the magnetic …

Liquid crystals are partially ordered systems without a rigid, long-range structure. The study
of these materials covers a wide area: chemical structure, physical properties and technical …

The aim of this book is to give a unified and critical account of the fundamental aspects of
liquid crystals. Preference is given to discussing the assumptions made in developing …

The magnetic birefringence, the intensity and the width in frequency of the Rayleigh
scattering, and the flow birefringence, are discussed in terms of a small number of …

The universal features of polymer dynamics are specifically represented by laws for
(anomalous) segment diffusion and chain relaxation modes. Nuclear magnetic resonance …

The fundamental theory of nuclear relaxation in scalar coupled spin systems was formulated
in the mid-nineteen-fifties in the form of the Bloch-Wangsness-Redfield master equation-5 …

The theory of spin relaxation for liquid crystals is examined with the objective of properly
analyzing the statistical inter dependence of the faster rotational reorientation of the …

Based on a previous, more approximate treatment [MF Brown, J. Magn. Reson. 35, 203
(1979)], expressions are derived for the quadrupolar spin‐lattice (T 1) relaxation rates of 2H …