Alternating thick and thin layers observed in the smectic phase of binary mixtures of rigid-rod helical polysilanes with different molecular lengths

Macromolecules

Volumn 43, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 5177-5179

  Okoshi, Kento ^a,b   Watanabe, Junji ^a  

^a TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHARACTERISTIC LAYERS; EXPERIMENTAL SYSTEM; IN-BETWEEN; LIQUID-CRYSTALLINE; MOLECULAR LENGTH; NARROW MOLECULAR WEIGHT DISTRIBUTIONS; RIGID RODS; ROD-LIKE PARTICLES; SMECTIC LAYERS; SMECTIC ORDERING; SMECTIC PHASE; THEORETICAL PREDICTION; THIN LAYERS;

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; MOLECULAR WEIGHT DISTRIBUTION; POLYMERS; POLYSILANES;

BINARY MIXTURES;

EID: 77953680045     PISSN: 00249297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ma100766f     Document Type: Article

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