Liquid-crystalline polymer composites

Her current research interests include studies of miscibility and physical aging in blends, nanophase separation in polymers with long side-chains, polymer dynamics, liquid crystalline polymers, composites, and systems containing nanoparticles. A common feature of these studies is the use of scattering techniques, especially neutron scattering, to study the local structure, conformation, and dynamics in polymers. She has written various reviews and book chapters in this area and has served on selection panels to allocate beam time at neutron facilities. 

Tjong, S. C. and Meng, Y. Z. 1997. Morphology and mechanical characteristics of compatibil-ized polyamide 6-liquid crystalline polymer composites. Polymer 38 4609-4615. 

Keywords Liquid crystalline polyester, liquid crystalline polymer blend, liquid crystalline polymer composite, hyperbranched liquid crystalline polymer, mechanical stability, thermal stability, reactive liquid crystalline polymer... 

S.G. Kottis Liquid crystalline polymer compositions containing small particle size fillers US Patent 6861463 Assigned to E. I. Du Pont de Nemours and Company March 1, 2005. 

A.H. Gerber, Liquid crystalline polymer compositions, process and products, U.S. Patent 4533692, assigned to SRI International, Aug. 6,1985. 

Narimissa E, Rahman A, Gupta RK, Kao N, Bhattacharya SN (2013) Anomalous first ntninal stress difference behavior of polymer nanocomposites and liquid crystalline polymer composites. Polym Eng Sci 54 1300-1312... 

Liquid crystalline polymer composites are a special class of advance materials prepared by homogeneous mixing of (1) Either two or more LCP polymer materials having significantly different physical and chemical properties and a filler, or by (2) Mixing LCPs with other type of polymer in presence of a filler. Now if the filler which is distributed or dispersed in one of the LCP phase is in nanometer... 

International Trends/Recent Advance in Liquid Crystalline Polymer Composite... 

Liquid crystalline polymer composites have become an increasingly important material for technological field involving photonic applications. Several attractive features such as dielectric anisotropy present in the mesophase, reasonably wide temperature range, low thermal expansion coefficient, high chemical resistance, specific thermo-mechanical response etc. make them more attractive. Of comse several limitations have to overcome in order to avail the total benefit of using such materials for opto-electronic applications. 

The family of Liquid crystalline polymer composites has unique combinations of several interesting material properties which prove their superiority over other conventional materials of similar kind which are used for design of intelligent functional materials. Design of organic polymer based composite materials has always remains as a thrust area for the peoples of material science since such kind... 

Kumar, S., Rath, T., Mahaling, R.N., Das, C.K., Processing and characterization of carbon nanofiber/syndiotactic polystyrene composites in the absence and presence of liquid crystalline polymer . Composites A 38,1304-1317 (2007). 

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