Book Chapter10.1007/978-3-662-08393-2_3
Liquid Crystalline Polymers
R. Zentel
- 01 Jan 1994
- pp 103-141
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TL;DR: In this paper, the possibility of combining polymer chains with liquid crystalline polymers has been considered, but it seems to be difficult to achieve, because polymer chains usually adopt a statistical coil conformation, whereas LC-phases possess an orientational and/or a positional long-range order.
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Abstract: Considering the possibility of liquid crystalline (LC) polymers at first, they seem to be difficult to achieve, because polymer chains usually adopt a statistical coil conformation, whereas LC-phases possess an orientational and/or a positional long-range order. Nevertheless, polymer chains can be combined with liquid crystallinity in two ways (see Fig. 3.1).
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