Morphology and deformation behaviour of a liquid crystalline polymer containing laterally attached pentaphenyl rods

Macromolecular Chemistry and Physics

Volumn 206, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 233-239

  He, Chaobin ^a,c   Liu, Puwei ^a,d   Griffin, Anselm C ^a,e   Smith, Christopher W ^b   Evans, Kenneth E ^b  

^a The University of Southern Mississippi   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^c INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS RESEARCH AND ENGINEERING   (Singapore)

^d Dexter Corporation   (United States)

^e Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

Auxetic; Liquid crystalline polymers (LCP); Microdeformation; Poisson's Ratio

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; DEFORMATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; POISSON RATIO;

CHAIN STRUCTURES; MELT-COMPRESSION METHODS; TRANSVERSE RODS;

LIQUID CRYSTAL POLYMERS;

LIQUID CRYSTALLINE POLYMER; PHENYL GROUP; POLYMER; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; COMPRESSION; LIQUID CRYSTAL; MATERIALS; MELTING POINT; MODEL; MORPHOLOGY; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; TENSION; THICKNESS;

EID: 13244294187     PISSN: 10221352     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/macp.200400302     Document Type: Article

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