Mechanical and thermophysical properties of polymer liquid crystals /

As compared to engineering polymers (EPs) and polymer composites, polymer liquid crystals (PLCs) have many attractive properties. Moreover, ordinary equipment for thermoplastic processing can be used for PLCs; often PLCs have lower viscosities than EPs, or addition of a PLC to an EP lowers the visco...

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Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Brostow, Witold, 1934-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Chapman & Hall, 1998.
Edition:First edition.
Series:Polymer liquid crystal series ; 3.
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Table of Contents:
  • One Formation of Polymer Liquid Crystals
  • 1 Creation of liquid crystalline phases: a comparative view emphasizing structure and shape of monomer liquid crystals
  • 2Inorganic polymer liquid crystals
  • 3 Design of polymer liquid crystals with non-covalent bonds
  • 4 Morphology of thermotropic longitudinal polymer liquid crystals
  • 5 Polymer liquid crystals in solution
  • 2 Thermophysical Properties
  • 6 Memory effects in polymer liquid crystals: influence of thermal history on phase behavior
  • 7 Longitudinal polymer liquid crystal + engineering polymer blends: miscibility and crystallization phenomena
  • 8 Thermal expansivity
  • Three Mechanical Properties
  • 9 Phase diagrams of polymer liquid crystals and polymer liquid crystal blends: relation to mechanical properties
  • 10 Development and relaxation of orientation in pure polymer liquid crystals and blends
  • 11 Flow-induced phenomena of lyotropic polymer liquid crystals: the negative normal force effect and bands perpendicular to shear
  • 12 Creep and stress relaxation
  • 13 Thermoreversible gelation of rigid rod-like and semirigid polymers
  • 14 Elastic moduli of polymer liquid crystals
  • 15 Computer simulations.