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Liquid Crystalline Conjugated Polymers

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Main-chain-type liquid crystalline conjugated polymers and supramolecules are discussed as hairy-rod-type polymers with rigid main chain and flexible covalently bonded side chains and as hairy-rod-type supramolecules with physically bonded side chains. Thanks to the rigid main chain these materials show both thermotropic and lyotropic liquid crystalline (LC) state which allows their facile macroscopic alignment leading to anisotropic optical and electrical properties. This chapter is a brief overview on this materials class with illustrative examples including polyfluorene, polypyridine, and polythiophene.

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  1. Department of Physics, Technical University of Denmark, Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark

    Matti Knaapila

  2. Materials Science Centre, DSM Research, Geleen, The Netherlands

    Roman Stepanyan

  3. Department of Physics, University of Durham, Durham, UK

    Andrew P. Monkman

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Knaapila, M., Stepanyan, R., Monkman, A.P. (2019). Liquid Crystalline Conjugated Polymers. In: Palsule, S. (eds) Polymers and Polymeric Composites: A Reference Series. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-37179-0_58-1

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