Abbreviations for names of polymeric substances

Use of abbreviations for names of polymeric substances (lUPAC Recommendations 19%6), Pure Appl. Chem. 59, 691-693 (1987). Revised version reprinted as Chapter 22, this edition. 

Use of Abbreviations for Names of Polymeric Substances Pure Appl. Chem. 59 (1987) 691. 

Before going any further, let us adopt the terminology introduced by Samulski [5]. We have already used above the abbreviation PLCs. Samulski contrasted PLCs to MLCs, and defined the latter as low molecular mass LCs— irrespective of the fact whether they can or cannot polymerize. His terminology is unequivocal and succinct. People unfamiliar with it use long and not necessarily well-defined terms, such as liquid-crystalline substances with low molecular weights —when they presumably mean MLCs. Other names such as liquid crystalline polymers (LCPs) for PLCs or LMMLCs for MLCs are also in use. The abbreviation SRPs for self-reinforcing polymers and the name in situ— composites [6] are used as weU. Moreover, PLCs are sometimes also called molecular composites. 

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