2006; Rey 2007, 2008a, b, 2009; Rey and Herrera-Valencia 2012). First, we
present the theory of liquid crystalline polymers, the rheological modeling (bulk
and interfacial) based on these equations (Rey 2007 and references therein),
morphological aspects such as textures and patterns (Rey 2007, 2009, 2010;
Defects and Textures
Defect Rheo-Physics
Defect Nucleation Processes
Textures Coarsening Processes
Applications to Liquid Crystalline Polymers (LCPs)
Flow Modeling
of Liquid
Crystalline Polymers
Introduction
Liquid Crystals
Biological Liquid Crystals
Liquid Crystals Polymers ;
(Thermotropics and Lyotropics)
Main Chain Liquid Crystalline Polymers
Side Chain Liquid Crystalline Polymers
Quadrupolar Order Parameter.
Characteristic Length/Time Scales in LCs
Leslie-Ericksen Nematodynamics
Landau de Gennes Theory
Bulk and Interfacial Equations
Patterns and Textures
Banded Pattern
Banded Textures After Cessation of Shear
Rheology
Transient Shear Responses
Tumbling Lyotropic LCPs
Linear Viscoelasticity of
Lyotropic and Thermotropic
LCPs.
Flow birefringence of biological
Liquid Crystals
Biological Liquid Crystalline
Polymers
Spider Silk
Collagen Film
Concluding Remarks
Fig. 2 Organization of the chapter. The basic principles of liquid crystal physics, organized in
terms of experimental and theoretical rheology, are used to describe the complex behavior of liquid
crystalline polymers
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