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Mechanical and Thermophysical Properties of Polymer Liquid Crystals

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Editors:
  1. Witold Brostow

    1. Department of Materials Science, University of North Texas, Denton, USA

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Part of the book series: Polymer Liquid Crystals Series (PLCS, volume 3)

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Table of contents (15 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiv
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  2. Formation of polymer liquid crystals

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Creation of liquid crystalline phases: a comparative view emphasizing structure and shape of monomer liquid crystals

      • Richard G. Weiss
      Pages 3-40

    3. Inorganic polymer liquid crystals

      • Cameron G. Cofer, James Economy
      Pages 41-58

    4. Design of polymer liquid crystals with non-covalent bonds

      • C. Géraldine Bazuin
      Pages 59-100

    5. Morphology of Thermotropic Longitudinal Polymer Liquid Crystals

      • Yang Zhong
      Pages 101-123

    6. Polymer liquid crystals in solution

      • Lydia Fritz, Joachim Rübner, Jürgen Springer, Dietmar Wolff
      Pages 124-143

  4. Mechanical properties

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 253-253
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    2. Phase diagrams of polymer liquid crystals and polymer liquid crystal blends: relation to mechanical properties

      • Michael Hess, Betty L. López
      Pages 255-305

    3. Development and relaxation of orientation in pure polymer liquid crystals and blends

      • Ulf W. Gedde, Göran Wiberg
      Pages 306-341

    4. Flow induced phenomena of lyotropic polymer liquid crystals: the negative normal force effect and bands perpendicular to shear

      • Gabor Kiss, Roger S. Porter
      Pages 342-406

    5. Creep and stress relaxation

      • Josef Kubát, Robert D. Maksimov
      Pages 407-430

    6. Thermoreversible gelation of rigid rod-like and semirigid polymers

      • Andreas Greiner, Willie E. Rochefort
      Pages 431-447

    7. Elastic moduli of polymer liquid crystals

      • C. L. Choy
      Pages 448-494

    8. Computer simulations

      • Witold Brostow
      Pages 495-510

  5. Back Matter

    Pages 511-520
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may never overcome the effects of hysteresis and stress (see Chapters 6 and 12). The first sentence of the reference work, Handbook of Liquid Crystals, reads: The terms liquid crystals, crystalline liquid, mesophase, and mesomorphous state are used synonymously to describe a state of aggregation that exhibits a molecular order in a size range similar to that of a crystal but acts more or less as a viscous liquid: [2] In other words, molecules within a liquid crystalline phase possess some orientational order and lack positional order; furthermore, the shape of a liquid crystalline sample is determined by the vessel in which it is contained rather than by the orientational order of its aggregated molecules. The authors recognized the limitations and imprecision of this definition but, like others preceding them, could not devise a simple and generally applicable one that is better. Regardless, the terms 'liquid crystal' and 'mesophase' should not be used interchangeably. As mentioned above, all liquid crystals are mesophases, but all mesophases are not liquid crystals. Recent studies, employing elaborate and sophisticated analytical techniques, have permitted finer distinctions between classical crystals and mesophases. At the same time, they have made definitions like that from the Handbook of Liquid Crystals somewhat obsolete for reasons other than terminology. One part of the problem arises from the use of a combination of bulk properties (like flow) and microscopic properties (like molecular ordering) within the same definition.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Materials Science, University of North Texas, Denton, USA

    Witold Brostow

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Mechanical and Thermophysical Properties of Polymer Liquid Crystals

  • Editors: Witold Brostow

  • Series Title: Polymer Liquid Crystals Series

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-5799-9

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 1998

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-412-60900-8Published: 28 February 1998

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4613-7657-6Published: 23 February 2014

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4615-5799-9Published: 27 November 2013

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIV, 520

  • Number of Illustrations: 30 b/w illustrations, 4 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Characterization and Evaluation of Materials, Polymer Sciences

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