High Performance Liquid Crystalline Polymers
A special issue of Polymers (ISSN 2073-4360). This special issue belongs to the section "Polymer Physics and Theory".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 October 2019) | Viewed by 5778
Special Issue Editors
Interests: biomaterials and high-performance polymers; polyester; liquid crystalline polymers (LCP)
Interests: polymeric biomaterials for drug delivery and regenerative medicine; nano- and micro-fiber fabrication; bio-mimicking approaches for polymer flammability mitigation; polymer packaging systems design; polyelectrolyte gels and elastomers; physiologically-mimicking macromolecular constructs with attention to primitive motile and irritable systems
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The proposed Special Issue of Polymers is focused on liquid crystallinity, more generally mesophase formation in polymers. Liquid crystalline polymers, LCPs, were an intensive area of polymer research in the latter half of the 20th century, leading to the commercialization of high-performance fibers (Kevlar, Twaron, Vectran) and the novel high-performance plastic, Vectra. It was shown that all known low molar mass liquid crystalline textures were accessible to macromolecules, that liquid crystallinity was often noted in biological polymers, and a broad range of chemistries including mainchain and sidechain compositions forming LC phases in the melt, in solution or both were investigated. With the commercial applications of LCPs limited to specialty high-performance products, research interest waned and the intensity of LCP research declined over the past few decades. It is the purpose of this Special Issue to rekindle interest in this area of polymer science by reviewing the research accomplishments of the past, while providing a forum for new research currently in progress.
Prof. Michael Jaffe
Prof. Gary E. Wnek
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Liquid crystalline polymer (LCP)
- Mesophase
- Mainchain LCP
- Sidechain LCP
- Thermotropic
- Lyotropic
- High performance
