Effects of monomer structure on their organization and polymerization in a smectic liquid crystal

Science

Volumn 275, Issue 5296, 1997, Pages 57-59

  Guymon, C Allan ^a   Hoggan, Erik N ^a   Clark, Noel A ^b   Rieker, Thomas P ^c   Walba, David M ^b   Bowman, Christopher N ^a  

^a University of Colorado at Boulder   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^c MSC01 1070   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; AROMATIC COMPOUNDS; DIFFUSION; GELS; LIQUID CRYSTAL POLYMERS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; MONOMERS; PHOTOCHEMICAL REACTIONS; POLYMERIZATION; REACTION KINETICS;

ACRYLOYLOXYHEXYLOXYBENZOYLOXY METHYLBENZENE; HEXANEDIOL DIACRYLATE; MONOMER STRUCTURE;

SMECTIC LIQUID CRYSTALS;

1,6 HEXANEDIOL; ACRYLIC ACID DERIVATIVE; ELASTOMER; MONOMER;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL REACTION KINETICS; INFRARED RADIATION; LIQUID CRYSTAL; PHASE TRANSITION; POLYMERIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

EID: 0031550291     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.275.5296.57     Document Type: Article

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22. We thank the Department of Defense for its support of this work through a fellowship to CAG and D. Broer for generously providing the C6M monomer. The financial support of the National Science Foundation (MRG grant DMR-9224168 and CTS-9453369) and help with the IR dichroism from W. Jang is also gratefully acknowledged.