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CHAPTER 9 DIFFUSION PROPERTIES 9.1 Measurement of translational diffusion in nematics 9.2 Rotational diffusion of liquid crystals in the nematic phase 9.3 Neutron scattering studies of dynamics in nematics 9.1 Measurement of translational diffusion in nematics S. Miyajima March 1999 A INTRODUCTION Translational self-diffusion of constituent particles in the condensed phase is described by the diffusion equation [1,2] (1) where c = c (￡, t) is the particle concentration per unit volume, § is the spatial coordinate, t is the time, and D is the self-diffusion coefficient. EQN (1) assumes that dif