Self-assembly of amphiphilic liquid crystal polymers obtained from a cyclopropane-1,1-dicarboxylate bearing a cholesteryl mesogen

Langmuir

Volumn 28, Issue 30, 2012, Pages 11215-11224

  Jia, Lin ^a   Liu, Ming ^b   Di Cicco, Aurélie ^a   Albouy, Pierre Antoine ^c   Brissault, Blandine ^b   Penelle, Jacques ^b   Boileau, Sylvie ^b   Barbier, Valessa ^b   Li, Min Hui ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS EST   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SACLAY   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPHIPHILIC COPOLYMERS; AMPHIPHILICS; ANIONIC RING OPENING POLYMERIZATION; FOLDED STRUCTURES; FUNCTIONALIZED; HYDROPHOBIC BLOCKS; IN-SITU; LYOTROPICS; MESOGENES; MESOPHASES; NANORIBBONS; NARROW MOLECULAR WEIGHT DISTRIBUTIONS; PHOSPHAZENE BASE; POLARIZING OPTICAL MICROSCOPY; SELF-ORGANIZE; SMALL ANGLE X-RAY SCATTERING; SMECTIC-A; THIOL GROUPS; THIOPHENOLS; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY TEM;

BLOCK COPOLYMERS; CARBOXYLATION; DIFFERENTIAL SCANNING CALORIMETRY; LIQUID CRYSTAL POLYMERS; MONOMERS; POLYETHYLENE OXIDES; POLYMERIZATION; PROPANE; SELF ASSEMBLY; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

POLYETHYLENE GLYCOLS;

CYCLOPROPANE 1,1 DICARBOXYLIC ACID; CYCLOPROPANE DERIVATIVE; CYCLOPROPANE-1,1-DICARBOXYLIC ACID; DICARBOXYLIC ACID; LIQUID CRYSTAL POLYMER; MACROGOL DERIVATIVE; POLYMER;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; DIFFERENTIAL SCANNING CALORIMETRY; SYNTHESIS; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

CALORIMETRY, DIFFERENTIAL SCANNING; CYCLOPROPANES; DICARBOXYLIC ACIDS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; POLYETHYLENE GLYCOLS; POLYMERS;

EID: 84864464668     PISSN: 07437463     EISSN: 15205827     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/la301860b     Document Type: Article

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