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Liquid Crystalline Polymers

Volume 2--Processing and Applications

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Editors:
  1. Vijay Kumar Thakur

    1. Mechanical and Materials Engineering, Washington State University, Pullman, USA

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  2. Michael R. Kessler

    1. Mechanical and Materials Engineering, Washington State University, Pullman, USA

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  • Covers the progress of development of new liquid crystal polymers
  • Introduces new materials being procured from liquid crystalline polymers
  • Contains extensive details on real-world applications of a novel advanced class of liquid crystalline polymers

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Table of contents (22 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. Liquid Crystals Order in Polymeric Microchannels

    • Giovanna Palermo, Luciano De Sio, Roberto Caputo, Cesare Umeton, Roberto Bartolino
    Pages 1-14

  3. Novel Liquid Crystal Polymers with Tailored Chemical Structure for High Barrier, Mechanical and Tribological Performance

    • Shintaro Komatsu, Bernd Wetzel, Klaus Friedrich
    Pages 15-39

  4. Selected Mechanical Properties of Uniaxial Side Chain Liquid Crystalline Elastomers

    • Philippe Martinoty
    Pages 41-68

  5. Recent Advances in the Rheology of Thermotropic Liquid Crystal Polymers

    • Ahmed O. Rahman, Rahul K. Gupta, Sati N. Bhattacharya
    Pages 69-102

  6. Liquid Crystalline Polymer and Its Composites: Chemistry and Recent Advances

    • Anirban Maitra, Tanya Das, Chapal Kumar Das
    Pages 103-131

  7. Effect of Polymer Network in Polymer Dispersed Ferroelectric Liquid Crystals (PSFLC)

    • Tapas Pal Majumder, Tanmoy Lahiri, Prabir Kumar Mukherjee
    Pages 133-167

  8. Electro-optic and Dielectric Responses in PDLC Composite Systems

    • R. R. Deshmukh
    Pages 169-195

  9. UV-Cured Networks Containing Liquid Crystalline Phases: State of the Art and Perspectives

    • Giulio Malucelli
    Pages 197-219

  10. Liquid Crystal Diffraction Gratings Using Photocrosslinkable Liquid Crystalline Polymer Films as Alignment Layers

    • Tomoyuki Sasaki, Kohei Noda, Hiroshi Ono, Nobuhiro Kawatsuki
    Pages 221-240

  11. Liquid Crystalline Polymer Blends as Fillers for Self-Reinforcing Polymer Composites

    • Kwabena A. Narh
    Pages 241-264

  12. Optical Fredericks Transition in a Nematic Liquid Crystal Layer

    • Hong Zhou, Eric P. Choate, Hongyun Wang
    Pages 265-295

  13. New Liquid Crystalline Poly(azomethine esters) Derived from PET Waste Bottles

    • Ahmed Mohammed Issam, A. K. Nurul Khizrien
    Pages 297-313

  14. Liquid Crystalline Polymer Composites for Optoelectronics

    • Amrit Puzari
    Pages 315-338

  15. Functional Materials from Liquid Crystalline Cellulose Derivatives: Synthetic Routes, Characterization and Applications

    • S. N. Fernandes, J. P. Canejo, C. Echeverria, M. H. Godinho
    Pages 339-368

  16. Liquid Crystal Polymers as Matrices for Arrangement of Inorganic Nanoparticles

    • Raisa V. Talroze, Alexeу S. Merekalov, Alina M. Shatalova, Olga A. Otmakhova, Georgiy A. Shandryuk
    Pages 369-387

  17. Side Chain Liquid Crystalline Polymers: Advances and Applications

    • G. Siva Mohan Reddy, J. Jayaramudu, S. S. Ray, K. Varaprasad, E. Rotimi Sadiku
    Pages 389-415

  18. Liquid Crystalline Semiconducting Polymers for Organic Field-Effect Transistor Materials

    • Qun Ye, Jianwei Xu
    Pages 417-436

  19. Azobenzene-Containing Liquid Single Crystal Elastomers for Photoresponsive Artificial Muscles

    • Jaume Garcia-Amorós, Dolores Velasco
    Pages 437-457

  20. Liquid Crystalline Epoxy Resin Based Nanocomposite

    • Sheng-Hao Hsu, Min-Huey Chen, Wei-Fang Su
    Pages 459-487
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About this book

This book introduces various applications of liquid crystalline polymers as the emerging new class of high performance novel materials. The authors detail the advantageous properties of these LCs including optical anisotropic, transparency and easy control over structure. This interdisciplinary work includes valuable input from international projects with special focus on the use of liquid crystalline polymers and/or nanocomposites.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Mechanical and Materials Engineering, Washington State University, Pullman, USA

    Vijay Kumar Thakur, Michael R. Kessler

About the editors

Drs. Vijay Kumar Thakur and Michael R. Kessler are both at the School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering, Washington State University.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Liquid Crystalline Polymers

  • Book Subtitle: Volume 2--Processing and Applications

  • Editors: Vijay Kumar Thakur, Michael R. Kessler

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-20270-9

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Chemistry and Materials Science, Chemistry and Material Science (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-20269-3Published: 11 September 2015

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-35866-6Published: 22 October 2016

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-20270-9Published: 25 August 2015

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XII, 535

  • Number of Illustrations: 86 b/w illustrations, 109 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Nanotechnology, Polymer Sciences, Engineering Thermodynamics, Heat and Mass Transfer

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