Thermodynamics of mainchain liquid cystals - Characteristic conformation of spacers and the role in determining the phase transition behaviors

Kobunshi Ronbunshu

Volumn 56, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 175-183

  Takeda, Takanori ^a   Abe, Akihiro ^a   Hiejima, Toshihiro ^a   Furuya, Hidemine ^b  

^a TOKYO POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Chain Conformation; Constant Volume Transition Entropy; Dimer Liquid Crystals; Liquid Crystalline Polymers; Orientational Order; PVT Properties; Stereochemistry; Trimer Liquid Crystals

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; CONFORMATIONS; DIMERS; ENTROPY; MOLECULAR ORIENTATION; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS; PHASE TRANSITIONS; STEREOCHEMISTRY; THERMAL EFFECTS;

TRIMERS;

LIQUID CRYSTAL POLYMERS;

EID: 0032592876     PISSN: 03862186     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1295/koron.56.175     Document Type: Article

References (32)

1. A. Abe, Macromol. Symp., 118, 23 (1997).
2. A. Abe and S.-Y. Nam, Macromolecules, 28, 90 (1995).
3. A. Abe, H. Furuya, R. N. Shimizu, and S.-Y. Nam, Macromolecules, 28, 96 (1995).
4. A. Abe and H. Furuya, Macromolecules, 22, 2982 (1989);
5. A. Abe and H. Furuya, Mol. Cryst. Liq. Cryst., 159, 99 (1988);
6. A. Abe, H. Furuya, and D. Y. Yoon, Mol. Cryst. Liq. Cryst., 159, 151 (1988).
7. K. Inomata, Ph. D Thesis, Tokyo Institute of Technology (1991).
8. S.-Y. Nam, Ph. D Thesis, Tokyo Institute of Technology (1994);
9. A. Abe, T. Takeda, T. Hiejima, and H. Furuya, Rep. Prog. Polym. Phys. Jpn., 40, 261 (1997).
10. A. Abe, R. N. Shimizu, and H. Furuya, "Ordering in Macromolecular Systems", A. Teramoto et al., Ed., Springer, Berlin (1994), pp. 139-153.
11. Y. Maeda, H. Furuya, and A. Abe, Liq. Cryst., 21, 365 (1996).
12. A. Sirigu, in "Liquid Crystallinity in Polymers", A. Ciferri, Ed., VCH Pub., New York, N.Y. (1991), pp. 261-313.
13. A. Abe, Macromolecules, 17, 2280 (1984).
14. J. W. Emsley, G. R. Luckhurst, G. N. Shilstone, and I. Sage, Mol. Cryst. Liq. Cryst., Lett., 102, 223 (1984).
15. R. B. Blumstein, E. M. Stickles, M. M. Gauthier, and A. Blumstein, Macromolecules, 17, 177 (1984).
16. C. T. Imrie and G. R. Luckhurst, J. Mater. Chem., 8, 1339 (1998).
17. R. N. Shimizu, H. Kurosu, I, Ando, A. Abe, H. Furuya, and S. Kuroki, Polym. J., 29, 598 (1997);
18. R. N. Shimizu, N. Asakura, I. Ando, A. Abe, and H. Furuya, Magn. Reson. Chem., 36, S195 (1998).
19. H. Furuya, T. Dries, K. Fuhrmann, A. Abe, M. Ballauff, and E. W. Fischer, Macromolecules, 23, 4122 (1990);
20. H. Furuya, A. Abe, K. Fuhrmann, M. Ballauff, and E. W. Fischer, Macromolecules, 24, 2999 (1991).
21. L. Mandelkern, "Crystallization of Polymers", McGraw-Hill, New York, N.Y. (1964), Chapter 5.
22. H. Furuya, S. Okamoto, A. Abe, G. Petekidis, and G. Fytas, J. Phys. Chem., 99, 6483 (1995).
23. D. Wunderlich and G. Czornyj, Macromolecules, 10, 906 (1977) and references cited.
24. R. E. Robertson, Macromolecules, 2, 250 (1969).
25. M. Naoki and T. Tomomatsu, Macromolecules, 13, 322 (1980);
26. T. Bleha, Polymer, 26, 1638 (1985) and references cited in these papers.
27. P. J. Flory, R. A. Orwoll, and A. Vrij, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 86, 410 (1960);
28. R. Simha and T. Somcynsky, Macromolecules, 2, 342 (1969);
29. T. Nose, Polym. J., 2, 124, 127 (1971).
30. P. Zoller and D. Walsh, "Standard Pressure-Volume-Temperature Data for Polymers", Tech. Pub. Co., Lancaster (1995).
31. A. Abe, T. Takeda, and T. Hiejima, Macromol. Symp., submitted.