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It is shown that the requirement that the basic unformly-oriented state of equilibrium of a nematic liquid crystal be stable to small disturbances leads to Parodi's relation between the viscosity coefficients, provided the material aligns in shear flow. This relation was first derived from Onsager reciprocal relations.
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P. K. Currie (1974) studied this question.
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