Large-scale and highly oriented liquid crystal phase in suspensions of polystyrene- block -poly(l -lactide) single crystals

Langmuir

Volumn 27, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 4351-4357

  Jiang, Chunbo ^a,b   Wang, Zongbao ^c   Huang, Haiying ^a,b   He, Tianbai ^a,b  

^a CHANGCHUN INSTITUTE OF APPLIED CHEMISTRY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c NINGBO INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS TECHNOLOGY AND ENGINEERING   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLLOIDAL PARTICLE; CROSSED POLARIZERS; LIQUID CRYSTAL PHASE; MONO-DISPERSED; P-XYLENE; PHOTONIC MATERIALS; PLLA; POLARIZING LIGHT MICROSCOPY; POLY (L-LACTIDE); SCHLIEREN TEXTURES; SELF SEEDING; SINGLE DOMAINS; SMALL ANGLE X-RAY SCATTERING; STERIC STABILIZATION; WELL-DISPERSED;

AROMATIC HYDROCARBONS; BIREFRINGENCE; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; LIQUID CRYSTALS; POLYSTYRENES; TEXTURES; X RAY SCATTERING; XYLENE;

SINGLE CRYSTALS;

EID: 79953892195     PISSN: 07437463     EISSN: 15205827     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/la200314t     Document Type: Article

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