Sensitivity of small molecule sorption to annealing in glassy liquid crystalline polymers

Atsushi Morisato, N. R. Miranda, J. T. Willits, G. R. Cantrell, B. D. Freeman, H. B. Hopfenberg, S. Makhija, I. Haider, M. Jaffe

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Abstract

The sorption of organic penetrants is found to be sensitive to thermal annealing conditions in a series of glassy, nematic, thermotropic, random copolyesters. Controlled thermal annealing of two polymers in this series permitted a systematic variation of chain packing and, presumably, higher order molecular suprastructure, ranging from a disordered amorphous morphology to more ordered nematic liquid crystalline and semi-crystalline morphologies. The development of liquid crystalline order appears to reduce or preclude small molecule solubility in nematically ordered forms of these polymers.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationCrystallization and Related Phenomena in Amorphous Materials
EditorsMatthew Libera, Tony E. Haynes, Peggy Cebe, James E. Dickinson Jr.
PublisherPubl by Materials Research Society
Pages81-86
Number of pages6
ISBN (Print)1558992200
StatePublished - 1994
Externally publishedYes
EventProceedings of the 1993 Fall Meeting of the Materials Research Society - Boston, MA, USA
Duration: Nov 29 1993Dec 2 1993

Publication series

NameMaterials Research Society Symposium Proceedings
Volume321
ISSN (Print)0272-9172

Other

OtherProceedings of the 1993 Fall Meeting of the Materials Research Society
CityBoston, MA, USA
Period11/29/9312/2/93

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • General Materials Science
  • Condensed Matter Physics
  • Mechanics of Materials
  • Mechanical Engineering

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