Occurrence of Unusual Mesophases in Chiral Side Chain Polymers

5 Occurrence of Unusual Mesophases in Chiral Side Chain Polymers 

A complex SmC polymorphism has recently been found in a polyacrylate fam- 

IV Behavior and Properties of Side Group Thermotropic Liquid Crystal Polymers 

A proposed explanation of this unusual behavior, which has not yet been observed with the low molecular weight SmC liquid crystals, involves  

In addition to these SmCf and phases, two new phases, called Uj and U2 by the authors, are also shown in the polymer V series (Tables 3 and 4). A careful X-ray analysis [46] has shown that Ui and U2 phases have a chevron-like ordering where the bilayers made of side-chain pairs are broken by periodic wall defects. More 

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