The orientational order parameters of a dendritic liquid crystal organo-siloxane tetrapode oligomer, determined using polarized infrared spectroscopy

Journal of Chemical Physics

Volumn 121, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 5012-5021

  Merkel, K ^a   Kocot, A ^a,b   Vij, J K ^a   Mehl, G H ^c   Meyer, T ^c  

^a TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SILESIA   (Poland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HULL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; DENDRIMERS; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; OLIGOMERS; POLARIZATION; POLYMERS;

FUNCTIONAL GROUPS; INFRARED (IR) ABSORBANCE; ORGANO-SILOXANE; VIBRATIONAL BANDS;

LIQUID CRYSTALS;

EID: 4544323060     PISSN: 00219606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1769355     Document Type: Article

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