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SHAPE MEMORY MAIN-CHAIN SMECTIC-C ELASTOMERS
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Page/Page column 9, (2009/10/01)
Shape memory main-chain smectic-C elastomers are described, as are methods for their preparation and monomers used in such methods. The elastomers are prepared by hydrosilylation of a reaction mixture including a liquid crystalline diene, a crosslinking agent, and a bis(silyl hydride) compound. The elastomers exhibit shape-memory properties and spontaneously reversible shape changes. They are useful for fabrication of shape memory articles including, for example, implantable medical devices, contact lenses, reversible embossing media, and Fresnel lenses.
Induction of smectic layering in nematic liquid crystals using immiscible components. 1. Laterally attached side-chain liquid crystalline poly(norbornene)s and their low molar mass analogs with hydrocarbon/fluorocarbon substituents
Arehart, Stephen V.,Pugh, Coleen
, p. 3027 - 3037 (2007/10/03)
{5-[[[2',5'-Bis[(4''-(n-(perfluoroalkyl)alkoxy)benzoyl)oxy]benzyl]oxy ]carbonyl]bicyclo[2.2.1]hept-2-ene]s were polymerized by ring-opening metathesis polymerization in THF at 40°C using Mo(CHCMe2Ph)(N-2,6(i)Pr2Ph)(O(t)Bu)2/sub
