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Liquid Crystalline Polymers

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Liquid Crystals

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Considering the possibility of liquid crystalline (LC) polymers at first, they seem to be difficult to achieve, because polymer chains usually adopt a statistical coil conformation, whereas LC-phases possess an orientational and/or a positional long-range order. Nevertheless, polymer chains can be combined with liquid crystallinity in two ways (see Fig. 3.1).

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Zentel, R. (1994). Liquid Crystalline Polymers. In: Stegemeyer, H., Behret, H. (eds) Liquid Crystals. Topics in Physical Chemistry, vol 3. Steinkopff, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-08393-2_3

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