Molecular design, synthesis, and characterization of liquid crystal-coil diblock copolymers with azobenzene side groups

Macromolecules

Volumn 30, Issue 9, 1997, Pages 2556-2567

  Mao, Guoping ^a   Wang, Jianguo ^a   Clingman, Scott R ^a   Ober, Christopher K ^a   Chen, John T ^b   Thomas, Edwin L ^b  

^a Cornell University   (United States)

^b Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHARACTERIZATION; CHEMICAL BONDS; CHEMISTRY; COMPOSITION EFFECTS; LIQUID CRYSTALS; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; MORPHOLOGY; PHASE TRANSITIONS; SOLVENTS; SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL); TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; VOLUME FRACTION;

ACID CHLORIDE COUPLING; AZOBENZENE SIDE GROUPS; CLEARING TRANSITION TEMPERATURE; HYDROBORATION CHEMISTRY; LIQUID CRYSTAL COIL DIBLOCK COPOLYMERS; MESOGENIC GROUPS; SMALL ANGLE X RAY SCATTERING; SMECTIC MESOPHASES;

BLOCK COPOLYMERS;

EID: 0031554237     PISSN: 00249297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ma9617835     Document Type: Article

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