Cooling rate effect on the phase transitions in a polymer liquid crystal: DSC and real-time MAXS and WAXD experiments

European Polymer Journal

Volumn 46, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 1623-1632

  Katerska, Borislava ^a   Exner, Ginka ^b   Perez, Ernesto ^c   Krasteva, Manya N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOFIA   (Bulgaria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PLOVDIV   (Bulgaria)

^c INSTITUTO DE CIENCIA Y TECNOLOGÍA DE POLÍMEROS   (Spain)

Author keywords

Crystallization kinetics; MAXS; Polymer liquid crystals; Polymorphism; Smectic A; WAXD

Indexed keywords

COOLING RATE EFFECT; COOLING RATES; CRYSTALLINE FORM; GRADUAL TRANSFORMATIONS; HIGH ORDER; MAXS; MESOPHASES; META-STABLE STATE; POLYMER LIQUID CRYSTALS; POLYMORPHIC FORMS; SMECTIC A PHASE; SMECTIC DOMAINS; SMECTIC PHASE; SMECTIC-A; STRUCTURAL PARAMETER; STRUCTURAL TRANSFORMATION; TEMPERATURE CHANGES; TEMPERATURE TREATMENTS; WIDE-ANGLE X-RAY DIFFRACTION;

CRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; CRYSTALLIZATION KINETICS; CRYSTALS; DIFFERENTIAL SCANNING CALORIMETRY; LIQUID CRYSTAL POLYMERS; LIQUID CRYSTALS; LIQUIDS; PHASE TRANSITIONS; POLYMERS; POLYMORPHISM; SMECTIC LIQUID CRYSTALS; X RAY DIFFRACTION; X RAY DIFFRACTION ANALYSIS;

COOLING;

EID: 77953621248     PISSN: 00143057     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eurpolymj.2010.03.018     Document Type: Article

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