Synthesis of Side-Chain Liquid Crystalline Homopolymers and Block Copolymers with Well-Defined Structures by Living Anionic Polymerization and Their Thermotropic Phase Behavior

Macromolecules

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 1995, Pages 50-58

  Yamada, Masayuki ^a   Iguchi, Tsukasa ^a   Hirao, Akira ^a   Nakahama, Seiichi ^a   Watanabe, Junji ^a  

^a TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

AMORPHOUS MATERIALS; ANIONIC POLYMERIZATION; BLOCK COPOLYMERS; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; LIQUID CRYSTALS; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; PHASE SEPARATION; POLYSTYRENES; X RAY ANALYSIS;

HOMOPOLYMERS; LIVING ANIONIC POLYMERIZATION; MICROPHASE SEPARATION; POLYMER LIQUID CRYSTALS; THERMOTROPIC PHASE BEHAVIOR;

SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL);

EID: 0029632146     PISSN: 00249297     EISSN: 15205835     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ma00105a006     Document Type: Article

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