Nematic order drives phase separation in polydisperse liquid crystalline polymers

Macromolecules

Volumn 33, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 2060-2068

  Elias, F ^a   Clarke, S M ^a   Peck, R ^a   Terentjev, E M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

DIFFERENTIAL SCANNING CALORIMETRY; GEL PERMEATION CHROMATOGRAPHY; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS; OPTICAL MICROSCOPY; PHASE SEPARATION; PHASE TRANSITIONS; SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL); TEXTURES;

POLYDISPERSITY; POLYMER CHAIN; SCHLIEREN TEXTURE;

LIQUID CRYSTAL POLYMERS;

EID: 0033892750     PISSN: 00249297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ma9916786     Document Type: Article

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