Molecular correlations in sheared thermotropic copolyesters showing banded textures |
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Authors: | C Viney AM Donald AH Windle |
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Affiliation: | Department of Metallurgy and Materials Science, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 3QZ, UK |
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Abstract: | Banded textures produced in a thermotropic liquid crystal polymer by shearing between glass slides are examined by using both transmission electron and polarized light microscopy. The periodic variation in director orientation about the shear axis, as measured by light microscopy, is shown to be distinctly different from that indicated by electron diffraction. Measurements of birefringence and observation of Zernicke phase contrast indicate periodic variations in optical properties of the polymer, in step with the bands. Such effects are accounted for in terms of a synchronous rotation of the planar aromatic groups about the molecular chain axes. Evidence for an out-of-plane component of molecular orientation is also presented. |
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Keywords: | liquid crystal polymer banded texture synchronous rotation crossed polars molecular trajectory |
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