Influence of LC content on the phase structures of side-chain liquid crystalline block copolymers with bent-core mesogens

Macromolecules

Volumn 42, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 3510-3517

  Tenneti, Kishore K ^a   Chen, Xiaofang ^b   Li, Christopher Y ^a   Shen, Zhihao ^b   Wan, Xinhua ^b   Fan, Xinghe ^b   Zhou, Qi Feng ^b   Rong, Lixia ^c   Hsiao, Benjamin S ^c  

^a Drexel University   (United States)

^b PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BI-LAYERED STRUCTURE; HIERARCHICAL STRUCTURES; HOMOPOLYMERS; LAMELLAR MORPHOLOGY; LC CONTENT; LIQUID CRYSTALLINE POLYMER; LIQUID-CRYSTALLINE; MECHANICAL SHEAR; MESOGEN; MESOGENS; MORPHOLOGICAL STUDY; POLYMER BACKBONES; SHEAR PLANE; SIDE-CHAIN; SMECTIC C; SMECTIC LAYERS; VORTICITY DIRECTION; WIDE ANGLE X-RAY SCATTERING;

AC MOTORS; BLOCK COPOLYMERS; COPOLYMERIZATION; CRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; DIFFERENTIAL SCANNING CALORIMETRY; LIQUIDS; NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS; PHASE STRUCTURE; STYRENE; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

LIQUID CRYSTAL POLYMERS;

EID: 66249099527     PISSN: 00249297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ma8027563     Document Type: Article

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