ABSTRACT
While there is no such thing in nature as a rigid rod polymer, it has been found very useful to consider the properties of such an object in solution. The rod is characterized by its length,
L
, and its diameter,
d
. The characterization of such an object in solution is conveniently carried out using light scattering. The theory and some applications of light scattering to the measurement of stiff chains in solution are presented in Section 9.2.
