Liquid crystalline behaviour of polymer networks based on segmented chain mesogenic polymers

Article abstract of DOI:10.1080/10587259508033635

The synthesis of some crosslinked polymers based on a segmented-chain polymeric mesogen containing variable amounts of a side chain substituent is reported. The unswollen networks show thermotropic mesomorphism of nematic character whose stability decreases with increasing substitution and crosslink density. Depending on the same parameters, the swollen networks may show optical anisotropy at room temperature whose origin is attributed to phase separation.

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Liquid Crystalline Behaviour of Polymer
Networks Based on Segmented Chain
Mesogenic Polymers
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Gabriele Aurino , Ugo Caruso , Stefania Pragliola , Antonio
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Roviello & Augusto Sirigu
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Universita' degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, Dipartimento di
Chimica , Via Mezzocannone, 4, 80134, Napoli, Italy
Published online: 23 Sep 2006.
To cite this article: Gabriele Aurino , Ugo Caruso , Stefania Pragliola , Antonio Roviello & Augusto
Sirigu (1995) Liquid Crystalline Behaviour of Polymer Networks Based on Segmented Chain Mesogenic
Polymers, Molecular Crystals and Liquid Crystals Science and Technology. Section A. Molecular Crystals
and Liquid Crystals, 266:1, 99-109, DOI: 10.1080/10587259508033635
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