Entropically-driven formation of smectic A1, A2, and A3 phases in binary mixtures of rigid-rod helical polysilanes with different molecular weights

Macromolecules

Volumn 42, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 3443-3447

  Okoshi, Kento ^a   Suzuki, Akiko ^a   Tokita, Masatoshi ^a   Fujiki, Michiya ^b   Watanabe, Junji ^a  

^a TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b NARA INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AVERAGE LENGTH; LAYER THICKNESS; MIXING RATIOS; NARROW MOLECULAR WEIGHT DISTRIBUTIONS; R VALUE; RIGID RODS; SMALL ANGLE X-RAY SCATTERING; SMECTIC LAYERS; SMECTIC PHASIS; SMECTIC-A; THEORETICAL PREDICTION;

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; LIGHT SOURCES; LIQUID CRYSTAL POLYMERS; LIQUID CRYSTALS; MOLECULAR WEIGHT DISTRIBUTION; POLYMERS; POLYSILANES; SMECTIC LIQUID CRYSTALS; X RAY SCATTERING;

BINARY MIXTURES;

EID: 66249118005     PISSN: 00249297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ma900040x     Document Type: Article

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