Part II LCP Functions and Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
315
11 Liquid Crystalline Conjugated Polymers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 317
Matti Knaapila, Roman Stepanyan, and Andrew P. Monkman
12 Liquid Crystalline Conjugated Polymers with Optoelectronic
Functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 341
Kazuo Akagi
13 Photodeformable Liquid Crystalline Polymers (LCPs) . . . . . . . . . 361
Lang Qin, Wei Gu, and Yanlei Yu
14 Photoactive Liquid Crystalline Polymers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 391
Asit Baran Samui
15 Photoresponsive Liquid Crystalline Polymers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 417
Xiao Li and Haifeng Yu
16 Light-Sensitive Azobenzene-Containing Liquid Crystalline
Polymers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 447
Carlos Sánchez-Somolinos
17 New Stimuli-Response Liquid Crystalline Polymer
Architectures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 479
Lalit Mahajan, Dennis Ndaya, Prashant Deshmukh, and
Rajeswari Kasi
18 Photoalignment of Liquid Crystal Molecules Using
Fluorine-Containing Polyimides . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 493
Shuichi Sato, Hironaga Matsumoto, Setsuko Matsumoto, and
Kazukiyo Nagai
19 Gas Permeation and Barrier Properties of Liquid
Crystalline Polymers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 523
Shota Ando, Shuichi Sato, and Kazukiyo Nagai
20 Highly Flame-Retardant Liquid Crystalline Polymers . . . . . . . . . . 549
Li Chen and Yu-Zhong Wang
21 Characterizations of Nanocomposites of Liquid Crystalline
Polymers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 577
Tae Young Ha, Yong-Ho Ahn, Bo-Soo Seo, Donghwan Cho, and
Jin-Hae Chang
Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 609
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