Liquid crystalline rod-coil block copolymers by stable free radical polymerization: Synthesis, morphology, and rheology

Macromolecules

Volumn 36, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 3357-3364

  Gopalan, Padma ^a   Zhang, Yuanming ^a   Li, Xuefa ^a   Wiesner, Ulrich ^a   Ober, Christopher K ^a  

^a Cornell University   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

MESOGEN JACKETED LIQUID CRYSTALLINE SEGMENTS; POLYBUTYLBENZOYLOXYSTYRENE; ROD COIL BLOCK COPOLYMERS;

ACTIVATION ENERGY; FREE RADICAL POLYMERIZATION; LIQUID CRYSTAL POLYMERS; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; MORPHOLOGY; PHASE SEPARATION; POLYSTYRENES; REACTION KINETICS; RHEOLOGY; SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL); THERMAL EFFECTS;

BLOCK COPOLYMERS;

EID: 0038779595     PISSN: 00249297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ma021573u     Document Type: Article

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