Liquid Crystalline Polymers

Drs. Vijay Kumar Thakur and Michael R. Kessler are both at the School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering, Washington State University.

• Liquid Crystals Order in Polymeric Micro channels.- Novel Liquid Crystal Polymers with Tailored Chemical Structure for High Barrier, Mechanical and Tribological Performance.- Selected Mechanical Properties of Uniaxial Side Chain Liquid Crystalline Elastomers.- Recent Advances in the Rheology of Thermotropic Liquid Crystal Polymers.- Liquid Crystalline Polymer and Its Composites: Chemistry & Recent Advances.- Effect of Polymer Network in Polymer Dispersed Ferroelectric Liquid Crystals (PSFLC).- Electro-Optic and Dielectric Responses in PDLC Composite Systems.- UV-Cured Networks Containing Liquid-Crystalline Phases: State of the Art and Perspectives.- Liquid Crystal Diffraction Gratings Using Photocrosslinkable Liquid Crystalline Polymer Films as Alignment Layers.- Liquid Crystalline Polymer Blends As Fillers for Self-Reinforcing Polymer Composites.- Optical Fredericks Transition in a Liquid Crystal Layer.- New Liquid Crystalline Poly (azomethine esters) Derived From PET Waste Bottles.- Liquid Crystalline Polymer Composites for Optoelectronics.- Functional Materials from Liquid Crystalline Cellulose Derivatives: Synthetic Routes, Characterization and Applications.- Liquid Crystal Polymers as Matrices for Arrangement of Inorganic Nanoparticles.- Side Chain Liquid Crystalline Polymers: Advances and Applications.- Liquid Crystalline Semiconducting Polymers for Organic Field-Effect Transistor Materials.- Azobenzene-Containing Liquid Single Crystal Elastomers for Photoresponsive Artificial Muscles.- Liquid Crystalline Epoxy Resin Based Nanocomposite.- Synthesis of Functional Liquid Crystalline Polymers for Exfoliated Clay Nanocomposites.- Liquid Crystalline Polymers as Tools for the Formation of Nanohybrids.