Shear thinning and electro-rheological effect for neat liquid crystalline polysiloxane in the vicinity of isotropie-liquid crystalline phase transition

Polymer Journal

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 171-176

  Tanaka, Katsufumi ^a   Oiwa, Yasutaka ^a   Akiyama, Ryuichi ^a   Kubono, Atsushi ^a  

^a KYOTO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Electro Rhcological Fluids; Electro Rheology; Liquid Crystalline Polymers; Phase Transition

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; LIGHT POLARIZATION; LIQUID CRYSTAL POLYMERS; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; OPTICAL MICROSCOPY; PHASE TRANSITIONS; RHEOLOGY; SHEAR FLOW; THERMAL EFFECTS; VISCOELASTICITY;

ELECTRO RHEOLOGICAL EFFECT; ISOTROPIC LIQUID CRYSTALLINE;

SILICONES;

EID: 0031654360     PISSN: 00323896     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1295/polymj.30.171     Document Type: Article

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