Interfacial tension of a liquid crystalline polymer in an isotropic polymer matrix

Macromolecules

Volumn 38, Issue 17, 2005, Pages 7343-7351

  Wu, Jian ^a   Mather, Patrick T ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^b Case Western Reserve University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIPHASIC REGIONS; ISOTROPIC POLYMER MATRIX; MODIFIED DEFORMED DROPLET RETRACTION METHOD (MDDR); POLY(DIMETHYLSILOXANE);

NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS; OPTICAL MICROSCOPY; SURFACE TENSION; THERMOTROPIC LIQUID CRYSTALS;

LIQUID CRYSTAL POLYMERS;

EID: 24944432359     PISSN: 00249297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ma050483x     Document Type: Article

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