Roles of composition heterogeneity on ordering of a liquid crystalline copolyester: Nematic/nematic biphase and nonequilibrium pattern formed by seeded growth of LC domains

Macromolecules

Volumn 38, Issue 26, 2005, Pages 10702-10711

  Shiwaku, Toshio ^a,b   Nakai, Akemi ^a,c   Wang, Wei ^a,d   Hashimoto, Takeji ^a,e  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Polyplastics co   (Japan)

^c Kyushu Women's University   (Japan)

^d NANKAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^e JAPAN ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; ANNEALING; CRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; EPITAXIAL GROWTH; NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS; OPTICAL MICROSCOPY; QUENCHING; TEXTURES; THERMODYNAMIC STABILITY;

COMPOSITION HETEROGENEITY; ISOTHERMAL ANNEALING; LIQUID CRYSTALLINE (LC) COPOLYESTER; POLARIZED OPTICAL MICROSCOPY;

POLYESTERS;

EID: 30744467941     PISSN: 00249297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ma050042d     Document Type: Article

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