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Block Copolymers Containing Mesogen-Jacketed Liquid Crystalline Polymers as Rod Blocks: Synthesis and Self-Assembly

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Liquid Crystalline Polymers

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With bulky, side-on attached side chains connected to the backbones directly or through very short spacers, mesogen-jacketed liquid crystalline polymers (MJLCPs) take an extended-chain conformation. They can be synthesized by controlled/living radical polymerizations, resulting in rod-like or sheet-like supramolecular chains with tunable dimensions. Such polymer chains can form columnar or smectic liquid crystalline phases. Well-defined block copolymers with rod-like MJLCPs have been synthesized using different methods. The self-assembling behaviors of these block copolymers have also been investigated. MJLCPs are excellent and sometimes unique rod blocks in constructing block copolymers with interesting self-assembled structures.

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Shen, Z., Zhou, QF. (2016). Block Copolymers Containing Mesogen-Jacketed Liquid Crystalline Polymers as Rod Blocks: Synthesis and Self-Assembly. In: Thakur, V., Kessler, M. (eds) Liquid Crystalline Polymers. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-22894-5_3

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