The effect of curing reaction on mesophase-rich islands of segmented main chain liquid crystalline oligoesters

Reactive and Functional Polymers

Volumn 66, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 1250-1262

  Jannesari, Ali ^a   Ghaffarian, Seyed Reza ^a   Molaei, Afrooz ^a  

^a AMIRKABIR UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Depolarizing transmittance measurement; Differential scanning calorimetry; Hierarchical model; Liquid crystalline thermosets

Indexed keywords

CURING; DIFFERENTIAL SCANNING CALORIMETRY; ESTERIFICATION; LIQUID CRYSTALS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTICAL MICROSCOPY;

DEPOLARIZING TRANSMITTANCE MEASUREMENT; HIERARCHICAL MODELS; LIQUID CRYSTALLINE THERMOSETS;

ESTERS;

EID: 33748944025     PISSN: 13815148     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.reactfunctpolym.2006.03.018     Document Type: Article

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