Controlling the critical behavior of paranematic to nematic transition in main-chain liquid single-crystal elastomers

Macromolecules

Volumn 42, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 2069-2073

  Cordoyiannis, George ^a   Lebar, Andrija ^a   Rožič, Brigita ^a   Zalar, Boštjan ^a   Kutnjak, Zdravko ^a   Žumer, Slobodan ^a,b   Brömmel, Felicitas ^c   Krause, Simon ^c   Finkelmann, Heino ^c  

^a JO EF STEFAN INSTITUTE   (Slovenia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AC-CALORIMETRY; CRITICAL BEHAVIOR; CRITICAL POINTS; CROSS-LINKERS; CROSS-LINKING DENSITY; FIRST ORDER; HIGH RESOLUTION; LIQUID CRYSTAL ELASTOMERS; LIQUID-VAPOR; MECHANICAL FIELD; NEMATIC PHASE TRANSITIONS; NEMATIC TRANSITIONS; QUADRUPOLE; SIDE-CHAIN; SUPER-CRITICAL; THERMODYNAMIC BEHAVIORS;

DEUTERIUM; ELASTOMERS; EQUATIONS OF STATE; LIGHT SOURCES; LIQUID CRYSTALS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; PLASTICS; RUBBER; THERMODYNAMICS;

PHASE TRANSITIONS;

EID: 66649101402     PISSN: 00249297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ma802049r     Document Type: Article

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