Polymers with mesogenic segments

Compatibility Between Polymers with Mesogenic Segments and Low Molecular Weight Liquid Crystals... 

Polymers with fluorinated segments represent a field on its own which is not considered here [382-384], Polymer chains were also used to interconnect fluorous mesogenic units, either comprising a single aromatic unit [385-389] or a rod-like units which can be attached either terminally [193, 390-394] or laterally [240, 395-397] to the polymer backbone. In most cases the termini of the mesogenic units... 

The substitution effect on liquid crystals has been discussed for low mass and fully aromatic polymers. The comparison of (3.28) with (3.27) shows the effect of substitution in mesogenic units on the properties of polymers with flexible segments in main chains. Again, the substituted polymer has a lower melting point, a lower clearing temperature, and a narrower temperature... 

Table 3.8. Property of polymers with mesogenic units separated by flexible decamethylene segments.

In Table 3.8, the structure and property are shown for a few polymers with different mesogenic units and/or different connecting groups but all with decamethylene as flexible segments. These polymers are so selected that the influence of the structure of mesogenic units and of the way of connecting may be demonstrated. 

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