Tailorable and programmable liquid-crystalline elastomers using a two-stage thiol–acrylate reaction

RSC Advances ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 5 (25) ◽  
pp. 18997-19001 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. M. Yakacki ◽  
M. Saed ◽  
D. P. Nair ◽  
T. Gong ◽  
S. M. Reed ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Liquid Crystalline ◽  
Main Chain ◽  
Temporal Control ◽  
Two Stage ◽  
Spatio Temporal

A methodology is introduced to synthesize main-chain liquid-crystalline elastomers (LCEs) using a thiol–acrylate-based reaction. This method can program an aligned LCE monodomain and offer spatio-temporal control over liquid-crystalline behavior.

scholarly journals Synthesis of Programmable Main-chain Liquid-crystalline Elastomers Using a Two-stage Thiol-acrylate Reaction

10.3791/53546 ◽  
2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohand O. Saed ◽  
Amir H. Torbati ◽  
Devatha P. Nair ◽  
Christopher M. Yakacki
Keyword(s):  
Liquid Crystalline ◽  
Main Chain ◽  
Two Stage

scholarly journals Main-chain liquid crystalline polymers bearing periodically grafted folding elements

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (7) ◽  
pp. 1050-1059
Author(s):  
Gabriel Ogunsola Orodepo ◽  
E. Bhoje Gowd ◽  
S. Ramakrishnan
Keyword(s):  
Liquid Crystalline ◽  
Main Chain ◽  
Liquid Crystalline Polymers ◽  
Crystalline Polymers ◽  
Interesting Alternative

Inclusion of non-mesogenic pendant segments, such as alkyl, PEG and fluoroalkyl, at periodic intervals along the backbone of main-chain LCPs, that contain flexible spacers, provides an interesting alternative to control the mesophase structure and the layer periodicity.

Molecular design of main-chain liquid crystalline polyolefin

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Naofumi Naga ◽  
Masato Sone ◽  
Keiichi Noguchi ◽  
Shigemitsu Murase
Keyword(s):  
Liquid Crystalline ◽  
Main Chain ◽  
Molecular Design
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