Liquid-Crystalline Polymers

Content: Current topics in liquid-crystalline polymers / C.K. Ober and R.A. Weiss --
Polyesters of 4,4'-biphenyldicarboxylic acid and aliphatic glycols for high-performance plastics / W.J. Jackson, Jr. and J.C. Morris --
Thermotropic aromatic copolyesters having ordered comonomer sequences : syntheses and properties / Jung-Il Jin --
All-aromatic liquid-crystalline polyesters of phenylhydroquinone with ether and ketone linkages / Michael H.B. Skovby, Claus A. Heilmann, and Jørgen Kops --
Thermotropic main-chain polyethers based on bis(4-hydroxyphenoxy)-p-xylene / Håkan Jonsson, Ulf W. Gedde, and Anders Hult --
Synthesis and chemical modification of chiral liquid-crystalline poly(ester [beta]-sulfide)s / E. Chiellini, G. Galli, A.S. Angeloni, and M. Laus --
Liquid-crystalline character of novel main-chain oligophosphates bearing lipophilic and/or mesogenic moieties / C.M. Paleos, A. Kokkinia, and P. Dais --
Thermotropic poly(ester-co-carbonate) / Yu-Chin Lai, Bruce T. DeBona, and Dusan C. Prevorsek --
Structures and thermal properties of liquid-crystalline poly(ester-co-carbonate) / M. Kawabe, I. Yamaoka, and M. Kimura : synthesis and microstructure of aromatic copolyesters / J. Economy, R.D. Johnson, J.R. Lyerla, and A. Mühlebach --
Synthesis, characterization, and photochemistry of a cinnamate-containing liquid-crystalline side-chain polymer / John M. Noonan and A.F. Caccamo --
All-hydrocarbon liquid-crystalline polymers / T.C. Sung, J.J. Mallon, E.D.T. Atkins, and S.W. Kantor --
Amorphous-liquid-crystalline side-chain AB block copolymers : synthesis and morphology / Joerg Adams and Wolfram Gronski --
Side-chain liquid-crystalline polyphosphazenes / R.E. Singler, R.A. Willingham, C. Noel, C. Friedrich, L. Bosio, E.D.T. Atkins, and R.W. Lenz --
Rigid rod molecules as liquid-crystalline thermosets / Andrea E. Hoyt, Brian C. Benicewicz, and Samuel J. Huang --
Synthesis, structure, and properties of functionalized liquid-crystalline polymers / Rudolf Zentel, Heinrich Kapitza, Friedrich Kremer, and Sven Uwe Vallerien --
Chemical heterogeneity in liquid-crystalline polyesters / C.K. Ober, S. McNamee, A. Delvin, and R.H. Colby --
Light microscopy of liquid-crystalline polymers / C. Viney --
Solid-state structures of a homologous series of mesogenic aromatic-aliphatic azomethine ether polymers / A. Biswas, K.H. Gardner, and P.W. Wojtkowski --
Copolymerlike structures of nematic nitroimine dimers / Leonid V. Azároff, Jack M. Gromek, Agya R. Saini, and Anselm C. Griffin --
Simulation and evaluation of polymorphism in the solid state of a rigid rod aramid / G.C. Rutledge, C.D. Papaspyrides, and U.W. Suter --
Calorimetric investigation of the glass transition in main-chain nematic polymers : molecular mass dependence of the heat capacity increment at the glass transition / R.B. Blumstein, D.Y. Kim, and C.B. McGowan --
Liquid-crystalline polymers : a unifying thermodynamics-based scheme / A. Keller, G. Ungar, and V. Percec --
Solubilities, processabilities, and head-to-tail polymerization of liquid-crystalline polymers, including first super-strong polymers / F. Dowell --
Molecular motion in the homopolyester of 4-hydroxybenzoic acid / J.R. Lyerla, J. Economy, G.G. Maresch, A. Mühlebach, C.S. Yannoni, and C.A. Fyfe --
Effect of shear history on the rheological behavior of lyotropic liquid crystals / P. Moldenaers, H. Yanase, and J. Mewis --
Shrinkage in parts molded from thermotropic liquid-crystalline polymers : dependence upon part geometry and filler content / Paul D. Frayer and Paul J. Huspeni --
Blending of polymer liquid crystals with engineering polymers : the importance of phase diagrams / Witold Brostow, Theodore S. Dziemianowicz, Michael Hess, and Robert Kosfeld --
Novel composites from blends of amorphous and semicrystalline engineering thermoplastics with liquid-crystalline polymers / Donald G. Baird and Tong Sun --
Investigations into the structure of liquid-crystalline polymer-liquid-crystalline polymer blends / Mark T. DeMeuse and Michael Jaffe --
Kinetics of phase segregation in thermotropic liquid-crystalline copolyester and polyether imide blends / Johnny Q. Zheng and Thein Kyu --
Polymer-dispersed liquid crystals / John L. West.