Melt Viscosity of Main-Chain Thermotropic Liquid Crystalline Polymers without Flexible Spacers

Macromolecules

Volumn 28, Issue 21, 1995, Pages 7085-7087

  Romo Uribe, A ^a   Windle, A H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHARACTERIZATION; COPOLYMERS; MATERIALS TESTING; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; POLYESTERS; RHEOLOGY; SPECTROMETERS; THERMOTROPIC LIQUID CRYSTALS; VISCOSITY; VISCOSITY MEASUREMENT;

FLEXIBLE SPACERS; MELT VISCOSITY; NEMATIC STATE; SMALL MOLECULE LIQUID CRYSTAL; THERMOTROPIC COPOLYMERS;

LIQUID CRYSTAL POLYMERS;

EID: 0029640284     PISSN: 00249297     EISSN: 15205835     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ma00125a008     Document Type: Article

References (28)

1. Donald, A. M.; Windle, A. H. Liquid Crystalline Polymers; Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, U.K., 1992.
2. Ciferri, A. Liquid Crystallinity in Polymers: Principles and Fundamental Properties; VCH Publishers: New York, 1991.
3. de Gennes, P.-G. The Physics of Liquid Crystal; Clarendon Press: Oxford, U.K., 1974.
4. Doi, M.; Edwards, S. F. The Theory of Polymer Dynamics; Clarendon Press: Oxford, U.K., 1986.
5. The molten phase of the B-N random copolyesters is considered here to be nematic, although it has been proved that this mesophase contains segregated sequences of mesogenic units, forming smectic-type regions: Hanna, S.; Romo-Uribe, A.; Windle, A. H. Nature 1993, 366, 546.
6. Lemmon, T. Ph.D. Thesis, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, U.K., 1989.
7. Anwer, A. Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, U.K., 1990.
8. Calunndan, G. W.; Jaffe, M. The Robert A. Welch foundation conferences on chemical research, XXVI. Synthetic polymers, Houston, TX, Nov 15–17, 1982.
9. Krömer, H.; Khun, R.; Pielartzik, H.; Siebke, W.; Eckhardt, V.; Schmidt, M. Macromolecules 1991, 24, 1950.
10. Mooney, J. A. Ph.D. Thesis, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, U.K., 1990.
11. Guskey, S. M.; Winter, H. H. J. Rheol. 1991, 35, 1191.
12. Lin, Y. G.; Winter, H. H. Macromolecules 1988, 21, 2439.
13. Lin, Y. G.; Winter, H. H. Macromolecules 1991, 24, 2877.
14. Cochinni, F.; Nobile, M. R.; Acierno, D. J. Rheol. 1991, 35, 1171.
15. Berry, G. C.; Fox, T. G. Adv. Polym. Sci. 1968, 5, 261.
16. Graessley, W. W. Adv. Polym. Sci. 1974, 16, 1.
17. Kelker, H.; Hatz, R. Handbook of Liquid Crystals; Verlag-Chemie: Weinheim, Germany, 1980.
18. Kim, S. S.; Han, C. D. Macromolecules 1993, 26, 6633.
19. Heberer, D. P.; Odell, J. A.; Percec, V. J. Mater. Sci. 1994, 29, 3477.
20. Esnault, P.; Volino, F.; Martins, A. F.; Kumar, S.; Blumstein, A. Mol. Cryst. Liq. Cryst. 1987, 153, 143.
21. Kent, S. L.; Geil, P. H. J. Polym. Sci., Polym. Phys. Ed. 1992, B30, 1489.
22. Irwin, R. S. Macromolecules 1993, 26, 7125.
23. Doi, M.; Edwards, S. F. J. Chem. Soc., Faraday Trans. 2 1978, 74, 560.
24. Doi, M.; Edwards, S. F. J. Chem. Soc., Faraday Trans. 2 1978, 74, 918.
25. Klein, T.; Jun, H. X.; Esnault, P.; Blumstein, A.; Volino, F. Macromolecules 1989, 22, 3731.
26. Blumstein, A.; Thomas, O.; Kumar, S. J. Polym. Sci., Polym. Phys. Ed. 1986, 24, 27.
27. Esnault, P.; Casquilho, J. P.; Volino, F.; Martins, A. F.; Blumstein, A. Liq. Cryst. 1990, 7, 607.
28. Alderman, N. J.; Mackley, M. R. Faraday Discuss. Chem. Soc. 1985, 79, 149.