Contents
1 Introduction to Liquid Crystalline Polymers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Soma Banerjee and Kamal K. Kar
Part I LCP Self-Assembly and Dynamics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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2 Mesogen-Jacketed Liquid Crystalline Polymers: Molecular
Design and Synthesis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Zhihao Shen
3 Liquid Crystalline Polymers Derived from Disc-Shaped
Molecules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Shilpa Setia, Sandeep Kumar, and Santanu Kumar Pal
4 Anisotropic Liquid Crystal Networks from Reactive Mesogens . . .
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Dae-Yoon Kim, Namil Kim, and Kwang-Un Jeong
5 Columnar Phase-Forming Polymers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117
Shi Jin
6 Fullerene Liquid Crystals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149
Xiaoming Yang, Tiantian Zhu, and Yingfeng Tu
7 Structure and Assembly of Liquid Crystalline Block
Copolymers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173
Kishore K. Tenneti, Xiaofang Chen, Qiwei Pan, and Christopher Y. Li
8 Supramolecular Self-Assembly of Discotic Liquid Crystalline
LEGOs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217
Lei Zhu
9 Probing Submillimeter Dynamics to Access Static Shear
Elasticity from Polymer Melts to Molecular Fluids . . . . . . . . . . . . 249
Laurence Noirez
10 Liquid Crystalline Polymers: Structure and Dynamics . . . . . . . . . 273
Alejandro D. Rey, Edtson E. Herrera-Valencia, and
Oscar F. Aguilar Gutierrez
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