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Solutions of two different liquid crystalline polymers of high molecular weight are investigated by static and dynamic light scattering (LS), membrane osmometry and size-exclusion chromatography (SEC). Measurements in dilute solution in different solvents showed no specific behavior as formation of aggregates or chain stiffening. Large discrepancies between the LS results and the results from osmometry and SEC show that the latter methods are in the present cases not suitable for molecular weight determination. In semi-dilute solution the osmotic modulus and the time correlation function were studied. Behavior of flexible chains was observed. In one system a slight aggregation of small molecules onto longer chains was found causing less interpenetration of the chains in that solvent. At moderately high concentrations cluster formation was observed from i) a small angle excess scattering, ii) a downturn of the osmotic modulus, and iii) the appearance of a slow motion in the time-correlation function.
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Richtering, W.H., Schätzle, J., Adams, J. et al. Solution behavior of two liquid crystalline polymers of different architectures. Colloid & Polymer Sci 267, 568–576 (1989). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01410432
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