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Densely crosslinked liquid single‐crystal elastomers
Author(s) -
Küpfer Jürgen,
Nishikawa Etsushi,
Finkelmann Heino
Publication year - 1994
Publication title -
polymers for advanced technologies
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.61
H-Index - 90
eISSN - 1099-1581
pISSN - 1042-7147
DOI - 10.1002/pat.1994.220050205
Subject(s) - materials science , elastomer , polymer science , liquid crystal , composite material , optoelectronics
A series of liquid single‐crystal elastomers (LSCE) with different crosslinking densities were synthesized. The influence of the crosslinking density on the macroscopic properties (e.g. swelling, thermoelastic behavior and birefringence) and the phase behavior was studied. It is shown that densely crosslinked duromers are available which possess no clearing temperature and exhibit relatively high birefringence at high temperature.