ISSN:
0025-116X
Keywords:
Chemistry
;
Polymer and Materials Science
Source:
Wiley InterScience Backfile Collection 1832-2000
Topics:
Chemistry and Pharmacology
,
Physics
Notes:
Two non-ideal kinds of behaviour for solutions of liquid-crystalline side-chain polymer (LC polymer) solutes in nematic solvents of low molecular weight (LMW) are investigated, viz. immiscibility and induced smectic A phases. The former property already observed in the nematic state of some polysiloxanes is extended to polymethacrylates (or polyacrylates) leading to the conclusion that immiscibility is strongly influenced by the chemical structure of the whole macromolecule. The latter property responds in the same way as the former to molecular modifications, suggesting that they can be connected somehow.
Additional Material:
9 Ill.
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/macp.1988.021890919
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