On the physical basis for the nematic rubber elastic free energy
Soft Condensed Matter
2009-10-21 v1 Statistical Mechanics
Abstract
We discuss why it is physical to keep terms in the nematic rubber elastic free energy that reflect the order parameter dependence of the natural size of the network polymers. We address a point of difficulty in some mathematical approaches to this problem.
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@article{arxiv.0910.3807,
title = {On the physical basis for the nematic rubber elastic free energy},
author = {J. S. Biggins and M. Warner},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0910.3807},
year = {2009}
}
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3 pages