"Log-rolling" alignment in main-chain thermotropic liquid crystalline polymer melts under shear: An in-situ WAXS study

Macromolecules

Volumn 29, Issue 19, 1996, Pages 6246-6255

  Romo Uribe, A ^a,b   Windle, A H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COOLING; COPOLYMERS; MOLECULAR ORIENTATION; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; PHASE TRANSITIONS; STRAIN RATE; SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL); THERMOTROPIC LIQUID CRYSTALS;

CRYSTAL MELTING POINT; LOG ROLLING ALIGNMENT; NON PERIODIC LAYER CRYSTALS; ORIENTATION TRANSITION; THERMOTROPIC RANDOM COPOLYESTER; VORTICITY AXIS; WIDE ANGLE X RAY SCATTERING;

LIQUID CRYSTAL POLYMERS;

EID: 0030576826     PISSN: 00249297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ma960211h     Document Type: Article

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