Relationships Among Rheology, Morphology, and Solid-State Properties in Thermotropic Liquid-Crystalline Polymers

2020 ◽  
pp. 307-333
Author(s):  
Douglas E. Turek ◽  
George P. Simon ◽  
Carlos Tiu
Keyword(s):  
Solid State ◽  
Liquid Crystalline ◽  
Liquid Crystalline Polymers ◽  
Crystalline Polymers ◽  
Thermotropic Liquid Crystalline Polymers

Structure-property relations of liquid crystalline polymers

1987 ◽  
Vol 45 ◽  
pp. 460-463
Author(s):  
Linda C. Sawyer
Keyword(s):  
Solid State ◽  
Liquid Crystalline ◽  
Structural Model ◽  
Crystalline Polymer ◽  
Liquid Crystalline Polymers ◽  
Mechanical Anisotropy ◽  
Structure Property ◽  
Preparation Methods ◽  
Crystalline Polymers ◽  
Extended Chain

Recent liquid crystalline polymer (LCP) research has sought to define structure-property relationships of these complex new materials. The two major types of LCPs, thermotropic and lyotropic LCPs, both exhibit effects of process history on the microstructure frozen into the solid state. The high mechanical anisotropy of the molecules favors formation of complex structures. Microscopy has been used to develop an understanding of these microstructures and to describe them in a fundamental structural model. Preparation methods used include microtomy, etching, fracture and sonication for study by optical and electron microscopy techniques, which have been described for polymers. The model accounts for the macrostructures and microstructures observed in highly oriented fibers and films.Rod-like liquid crystalline polymers produce oriented materials because they have extended chain structures in the solid state. These polymers have found application as high modulus fibers and films with unique properties due to the formation of ordered solutions (lyotropic) or melts (thermotropic) which transform easily into highly oriented, extended chain structures in the solid state.

Gas sorption in thermotropic liquid-crystalline polymers

1990 ◽  
Vol 9 (11) ◽  
pp. 1280-1283 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. Carfagna ◽  
E. Amendola ◽  
G. Mensitieri ◽  
L. Nicolais
Keyword(s):  
Liquid Crystalline ◽  
Liquid Crystalline Polymers ◽  
Gas Sorption ◽  
Crystalline Polymers ◽  
Thermotropic Liquid Crystalline Polymers

Transient isothermal elongational flow of thermotropic liquid crystalline polymers

Polymer ◽  
1993 ◽  
Vol 34 (1) ◽  
pp. 204-206 ◽  
Author(s):  
D.E. Turek ◽  
G.P. Simon ◽  
F. Smejkal ◽  
M. Grosso ◽  
L. Incarnato ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Liquid Crystalline ◽  
Elongational Flow ◽  
Liquid Crystalline Polymers ◽  
Crystalline Polymers ◽  
Thermotropic Liquid Crystalline Polymers

Ionic conduction in sequentially ordered thermotropic liquid-crystalline polymers

1992 ◽  
Vol 37 (9) ◽  
pp. 1479-1481 ◽  
Author(s):  
I.M. Ward ◽  
J.E. McIntyre ◽  
G.R. Davies ◽  
S.A. Dobrowski ◽  
S.R. Mirrezaei ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Liquid Crystalline ◽  
Ionic Conduction ◽  
Liquid Crystalline Polymers ◽  
Crystalline Polymers ◽  
Thermotropic Liquid Crystalline Polymers
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