Orientational relaxation in the MaierβSa
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B.U. Felderhof
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Article
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2003
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Elsevier Science
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English
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The nonlinear self-consistent Smoluchowski equation for the distribution of orientations in a colloidal suspension of elongated molecules is solved for situations with uniaxial symmetry in the framework of the Maier-Saupe model. The axis of symmetry corresponds to the direction of an applied magneti