Abstract
Main chain polymer liquid crystals have been modelled as worms. In reality the stiffness is not distributed in this manner-rods are connected to each other by spacers. The authors examine the limits of this problem, that is worm and jointed-rod models, to see when each is applicable. Hairpins, found naturally in the worm problem, also exist for jointed systems but their scaling is quite different.
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