Anomalous thermotropic liquid crystalline phase behaviour in poly[n-decyl-(RS)-2-methylbutylsilane]s with narrow molecular weight distributions

Liquid Crystals

Volumn 37, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 1183-1190

  Okoshi, Kento ^a   Hagihara, Takahiro ^b   Fujiki, Michiya ^b   Watanabe, Junji ^a  

^a TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b NARA INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Liquid crystalline polymer (LCP); Phase behaviour; Polysilane; Reentrant isotropic phase; Smectic phase

Indexed keywords

EID: 77956544532     PISSN: 02678292     EISSN: 13665855     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02678292.2010.490623     Document Type: Article

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