PHASE-BEHAVIOR AND ORIENTATIONAL ORDER OF A MAIN-CHAIN NEMATIC POLYESTER - A COMBINED SANS AND NMR-STUDY

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ABIS, L
ARRIGHI, V
CIMECIOGLU, AL
HIGGINS, JS
WEISS, RA
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[1] UNIV LONDON IMPERIAL COLL SCI TECHNOL & MED,DEPT CHEM ENGN,LONDON SW7 2BY,ENGLAND
[2] IST G DONEGANI SPA MONTEDISON,I-28100 NOVARA,ITALY
[3] UNIV CONNECTICUT,INST MAT SCI,STORRS,CT 06269
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10.1016/0014-3057(93)90080-Y
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O63 [高分子化学(高聚物)];
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070305 ; 080501 ; 081704 ;
摘要
A main-chain semiflexible copolyester, containing 4,4'-dihydroxy-alpha,alpha'-dimethylbenzalazine as a mesogenic unit was studied by SANS and solid state NMR. SANS scattering pattern's from mixtures of labelled and unlabelled LCP indicated the presence of an additional coherent signal superimposed on the single chain scattering function. The scattering from the pure polymers (hydrogenous, partially deuterated and fully deuterated LCP) was investigated to assess the origin of this extra signal. The results suggest that the disclination structure associated with a domain structure, typical of liquid crystalline systems, may be observable by SANS. In addition NMR experiments excluded the possibility of the existence of a biphasic region over a wide temperature range. NMR spectra evidenced a pure nematic phase for measurements performed on heating above the solid to nematic phase transition. The orientational order of the mesogenic units was investigated by proton and deuterium NMR. The order parameters were found to be very high: at the nematic to solid transition S(zz) was estimated to be 0.965 and it was approaching 0.67 at the nematic to isotropic phase transition.
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