Frustrated molecular packing in highly ordered smectic phase of side-chain liquid crystalline polymer with rigid polyacetylene backbone

Journal of the American Chemical Society

Volumn 127, Issue 21, 2005, Pages 7668-7669

  Ye, Chun ^a   Xu, Guoqiang ^b   Yu, Zhen Qiang ^a   Lam, Jacky W Y ^c   Jang, Jee Hwan ^b   Peng, Hai Lin ^a   Tu, Ying Feng ^a   Liu, Zhong Fan ^a   Jeong, Kwang Un ^b   Cheng, Stephen Z D ^a,b   Chen, Er Qiang ^a   Tang, Ben Zhong ^c  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b The University of Akron   (United States)

^c HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POLYACETYLENE; POLYMER; SILICON DIOXIDE;

ARTICLE; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; DIFFERENTIAL SCANNING CALORIMETRY; LIQUID CRYSTAL; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; PHASE TRANSITION; PROTON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPY; THERMODYNAMICS; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

EID: 21144477385     PISSN: 00027863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ja050643k     Document Type: Article

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