Chem. J. Chinese Universities ›› 1995, Vol. 16 ›› Issue (4): 635.

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Ultrastructure of Liquid Crystalline Polyacrylates Containing p-Nitro Azobenzene

LI Min, ZHOU En-Le, XU Ji-Ping   

  1. Polymer Physics Laboratory of Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun, 130022
  • Received:1994-05-17 Revised:1994-09-27 Online:1995-04-24 Published:1995-04-24

Abstract: The phase behaviour of the side chain liquid crystalline polyacrylates containing pnitro azobenzene was studied by DSC,WAXD and the polarized optical micioscopy. It was shown that nematic phase can be formed for hmopolymer HP6,no LC phase can be observed for HP3and HP4; whereas smectic SAdphase can be obtained for Pnwhen n was equal to 3,4, 6,8. The unique phase behaviour of the copolymers Pnwas due to the existence of Hbond between-COOH and-NO2which has been confirmed by FTIR. The molecular arrangement of the copolymers in their LCstates was proposed from the results of WAXD and FTIR.

Key words: Side chain liquid crystalline polymers, Polyacrylate, p-Nitro azobenzene

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