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"a" alignment, 491. See also perpendicular alignment
activation energy or enthalpy, 30, 34
activation volume, 30, 34
Adam-Gibbs equation, 201-205, 210-212, 220-222, 228
adhesive or "sticky" hard spheres, 334-336, 338
adsorbed polymer layer; 340
affine motion or deformation, 120, 124
definition of, 118
of dropletS, 420
of emulsions, 416
of foams, 432
of polymer gels, 238
of suspensions, 276
not valid in ER fluids, 369
aggregation number, of micelles, 248-9
aggregation, or agglomeration, 337. See also clumping, flocculation
in ER fluids, 367
in ferrofluids, 379
in MR fluids, 377
of particles, 42, 264, 297, 311
simulation of, 380
in suspensions, 86
aging, in glasses, 206-212, 218
alignment angle, of director, 475, 502, 523
alignment by shear
block copolymers, 596, 607, 610, 614-626
fiber suspensions, 313
smectics, 487, 490-492, 620-621
alignment directions in smectics, 480
alignment in liquid crystals, 491
anchoring of nematic director, 450, 452, 462, 463, 486, 496, 497, 517
anisotropy
in magnetic susceptibility, 497
in molecular orientations, 115
Arrhenius temperature dependence, 30
in block copolymers, 573
in glassy liquids, 192, 193-195, 202, 205, 210, 217, 221
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