Molecular weight dependence of phase structures and transitions of mesogen-jacketed liquid crystalline polymers based on 2-vinylterephthalic acids

Macromolecules

Volumn 37, Issue 19, 2004, Pages 7188-7196

  Ye, Chun ^a   Zhang, Hai Liang ^a   Huang, Yun ^a   Chen, Er Qiang ^a   Lu, Yonglai ^b   Shen, Deyan ^b   Wan, Xin Hua ^a   Shen, Zhihao ^c   Cheng, Stephen Z D ^a,c   Zhou, Qi Feng ^a  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF CHEMISTRY   (China)

^c The University of Akron   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMORPHOUS SAMPLES; ANISOTROPIC PHASES; PHASE STRUCTURES; POLYSTYRENE STANDARDS;

CRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; DIFFERENTIAL SCANNING CALORIMETRY; FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; GEL PERMEATION CHROMATOGRAPHY; GLASS TRANSITION; LIGHT POLARIZATION; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; PHASE TRANSITIONS; POLYMERIZATION; POLYSTYRENES; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

POLYMERS;

EID: 4744363408     PISSN: 00249297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ma049195b     Document Type: Article

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