Phase transitions of dimeric liquid crystals containing long odd-numbered methylene spacers

Polymer Journal

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 51-54

  Ogawa, Yoshihiro ^a   Ootani, Kazuya ^a  

^a KUMAMOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Dimeric liquid crystals; Odd even effects; Odd numbered methylene spacers; Thermal properties; Thermotropic liquid crystalline polymer

Indexed keywords

DIMERS; ENTROPY; LINEAR EQUATIONS; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS; PHASE TRANSITIONS; THERMOTROPIC LIQUID CRYSTALS; X RAY POWDER DIFFRACTION;

DIMERIC LIQUID CRYSTALS; ISOTROPIC LIQUID CRYSTALS;

LIQUID CRYSTAL POLYMERS;

EID: 0032636689     PISSN: 00323896     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1295/polymj.31.51     Document Type: Article

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