Structure and linear viscoelastic behavior of main-chain thermotropic liquid crystalline polymers

Journal of Rheology

Volumn 41, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 1117-1145

  Romo Uribe, A ^a,b   Lemmon, T J ^a   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

ANNEALING; LIQUID CRYSTAL POLYMERS; MELTING; MOLECULAR ORIENTATION; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; OPTICAL MICROSCOPY; PHASE TRANSITIONS; RHEOLOGY; THERMODYNAMIC PROPERTIES; VISCOELASTICITY;

DYNAMIC OSCILLATORY EXPERIMENTS; LINEAR VISCOELASTIC BEHAVIOR; X RAY SCATTERING MEASUREMENT;

THERMOTROPIC LIQUID CRYSTALS;

EID: 0031232974     PISSN: 01486055     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1122/1.550820     Document Type: Article

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