Liquid-crystalline conjugated polymer synthesis

Self-Assembled Liquid Crystalline Conjugated Polymers Synthesis, Development, and Their Advanced Electro-Optical Properties... 

LIQUID CRYSTALLINE CONJUGATED POLYMERS - SYNTHESIS AND PROPERTIES... 

Acknowledgments The authors are grateful to Dr. Kiyoshi Suda, Dr. Hiroyuki Hayasaka, and Mr. Kazuyoshi Watanabe (Department of Polymer Chemistry, Kyoto University) for their valuable contributions in the development and synthesis of the liquid crystalline conjugated polymers discussed in this chapter. This work was supported by Grants-in-Aid for Science Research (S) (No. 20225007), (A) (No. 25246002), and (No. 25620098) from the Ministiy of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, Japan. 

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This book does not intend to cover the whole field of thermotropic liquid crystalline (TLC) materials as it is extremely difficult to cover within a single book. Instead it presents a collection of Chapters written by experts on various exciting topics in the field. Properties of recently developed TLCs (such as banana-type, thiophene-based, and columnar TLCs), phase biaxiaUty, and novel polymeric TLCs are discussed In detail. Solid-state NMR studies to obtain atomistic-level structural and geometrical information of TLCs are presented. Synthesis of liquid crystalUne conjugated polymers, fast switching of nematic materials by an electric field, and photoconducting discotic systems are also presented. 

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