Minimization of free volume: Alignment of triptycenes in liquid crystals and stretched polymers

Advanced Materials

Volumn 13, Issue 8, 2001, Pages 601-604

  Long, Timothy M ^a   Swager, Timothy M ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASPECT RATIO; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; LIQUID CRYSTAL POLYMERS; MOLECULAR ORIENTATION; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; PLASTIC FILMS; POLYMER BLENDS; SUPRAMOLECULAR CHEMISTRY; ULTRAVIOLET SPECTROSCOPY;

FREE VOLUME; HOST ALIGNMENT DIRECTION; STRETCHED POLYMERS; STRETCHING DIRECTION; SUPRAMOLECULAR ASSEMBLY; TRIPTYCENES;

ORGANIC COMPOUNDS;

EID: 0035906154     PISSN: 09359648     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/1521-4095(200104)13:8<601::AID-ADMA601>3.0.CO;2-V     Document Type: Article

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