Title    name Hot Topics International Workshop on The Mathematics of Materials Science : Liquid Crystals and Related Topics     Title Viscoelasticity of rod-like polymers in nematic solutions.   Speaker Masao Doi   Date 2012-12-21   Host   Place NIMS   File     Abstract : We discuss the viscoelasticity of the solutions of rod-like polymers in the nematic phase using the kinetic equation for the orientational distribution function for the polymers. The linear response of the equation gives the Leslie-Ericksen equation for the nemato-hydrodynamics and the non-linear analysis gives the non-linear viscoelasticity of the nematic solutions.

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