@article {101161,
	title = {Field theory and segmental alignment analysis for a solution of sequence disordered liquid crystalline polymers},
	journal = {J. Chem. Phys.},
	volume = {116},
	year = {2002},
	month = {2002},
	pages = {3134},
	abstract = {A field theory for the many-chain mesogen/flexible sequence model is developed. The theory is solved using a creation{\textendash}annihilation formalism based on a reference state that recovers the Gupta{\textendash}Edwards solution for the many-chain homopolymer system. Orientational averages are performed, and a nonlinear equation for the orientational tensor-dependent free energy is derived. The effects of flexibility, stiffness and intersegment alignment on orientational ordering, the nematic/isotropic density threshold, and the segmental orientational ordering at the nematic/isotropic transition is determined. {\textcopyright} 2002 American Institute of Physics.},
	url = {http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.1063/1.1430743},
	author = {Gutman, Lorin and Eugene Shakhnovich}
}
