Mesogene-polymer backbone coupling in side-chain polymer liquid crystals, studied by high magnetic-field-induced alignment

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 90, Issue 2, 2003, Pages

  Boamfa M I ^a   Viertler, K ^b   Wewerka, A ^b   Stelzer, F ^b   Christianen, P C M ^a   Maan, J C ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^b GRAZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANNEALING; BIREFRINGENCE; CHEMICAL BONDS; COOLING; HEATING; MAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NEUTRON SCATTERING; PHASE TRANSITIONS; RING OPENING POLYMERIZATION; TEMPERATURE;

HIGH MAGNETIC FIELD INDUCED ALIGNMENT; LOW MOLECULAR WEIGHT LIQUID CRYSTALS; MAGNETIC ALIGNMENT; MESOGEN-POLYMER BACKBONE COUPLING; POLYNORBORNENE; SIDE CHAIN POLYMER LIQUID CRYSTALS;

LIQUID CRYSTAL POLYMERS;

EID: 0037449859     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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