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In this chapter, liquid crystalline polymers are defined, methods for their characterization are described, and some examples of liquid crystalline polymers are discussed.
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Koltzenburg, S., Maskos, M., Nuyken, O. (2017). Liquid Crystalline Polymers. In: Polymer Chemistry. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-49279-6_20
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