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Some aspects of the structure–property relations for substituted biphenyl acrylic polymers and copolymers
thesis
posted on 2018-02-27, 17:02 authored by Peter L. ShawA series of substituted biphenyl acrylic monomers were produced
with the aim of studying the properties characteristic of mesophases
observed for some of the resulting polymers. The introduction of a
spacer unit, composed of a short sequence of methylene groups, which
decoupled the polymer main-chain from the mesogenic side group was
investigated. Polymers in which the biphenyl group was replaced by
naphthyl or phenyl groups were also examined. Replacement of the
acrylate group by a methacrylate group caused marked differences in
the properties of the resulting polymers, which was discussed in
terms of main-chain structures. [Continues.]
Funding
Imperial Chemical Industries and Science and Engineering Research Council (CASE scheme).
History
School
- Science
Department
- Chemistry
Publisher
© Peter Leslie ShawPublisher statement
This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 2.5 Generic (CC BY-NC-ND 2.5) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.5/Publication date
1983Notes
A Doctoral Thesis. Submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the award of Doctor of Philosophy at Loughborough University.Language
- en