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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 21 February 2011
The orientational order generated in a polymer network by an uniaxial stress is probed with NMR. The experiments are performed on an end-linked polydimethylsiloxane network. When a uniaxial force is applied a detailed analysis of the spectrum shows that the segmental motions become uniaxial around constraint direction. This experimental fact is explained by shortrange orientational interactions between chain segments.