The synthesis of segmented copolymers of aromatic polyether sulfone and liquid crystalline polyester containing flexible spacers
is presented. The segmented copolymers were prepared by solution condensation of hydroxy-terminated polyether sulfone with
diacid compounds 1–5 and 4,4′-dihydroxybiphenyl in a mixture of triphenylphosphine, pyridine and hexachloroethane. The obtained
polymers show a glass transition at around 160 °C which belongs to the segmental motion of polyether sulfone blocks, and one
or two melting transitions which belong to the thermal transitions of LCP blocks. Optical polarized microscopy verifies that
the obtained segmented copolymers present a nematic liquid crystalline phase at a temperature higher than their melting transitions. 相似文献
Summary A series of thermotropic, liquid crystalline (LC) polyesters was prepared in which the mesogenic group contained an unusually
large, polarizable pendant group in an attempt to increase intermolecular interactions so as to impart a more isotropic character
to the mechanical properties of the solid polymer. The series included repeating units containing main chain, polymethylene
flexible spacers of increasing lengths. All of the polymers formed stable nematic LC phases and had relatively low melting
temperatures, but recrystallization from the melt was very slow in each case.
Dedicated to Prof. Dragutin Fleš on the occasion of his 70th birthday 相似文献
Summary A series of model liquid crystalline (LC) polyesters have been prepared by low temperature solution polycondensation using staged addition methods. The model thermotropic polyesters were composed of aliphatic spacers and mesogenic groups made from substituted terephthalic acid and methyl hydroquinone. Both the mesogenic groups and the spacers were placed in the main chain. Attractive properties of these polymers include solubility in many organic solvents such as THF and DMSO with softening temperatures below 150°C. Some of these polymers show no melting transitions, and depending on the terephthalate group substituent, either smectic or nematic phases are formed. Results from GPC analysis show good solubility of polymers in THF with Mw lower than 10,000 compared to polystyrene standards. The synthesis and characterization of these LC polyesters are reported here. 相似文献
A new series of liquid crystalline polymers having dimetric moieties as side chains were synthesized. The polymers exhibited nematic and smectic A phases depending on the length and parity of the flexible spacers. As the length of the flexible spacer was varied, the nematic–isotropic transition temperature and the entropy change associated with the transition exhibited a remarkable odd–even effect, in which the even numbers exhibited higher values. The transition properties were compared with those of known liquid crystalline polymers and liquid crystal dimers. The dimetric moieties effectively affected the transition properties of the present polymers, and the odd–even effect was significantly greater than that of the known polymers. 相似文献
The orientation development characteristics in shear flow of wholly aromatic thermotropic liquid crystalline polymers were studied. Based on the analysis of shear flow in a capillary followed by elongational flow, an experimental setup has been proposed to determine the shear-induced orientation. Experimental results have indicated that shear-induced orientation depends on total shear strain. However, orientation enhancement due to shear flow is much less effective compared with orientation buildup in the case of elongational flow. Thermotropic liquid crystalline polymers that exhibited higher orientability in elongational flow exhibited also higher orientability in shear flow. Finally, to obtain high, shear orientation in processing of thermotropics, special care should be exercised in the design of dies and molds and in optimizing processing conditions, so that high shear rates and/or long shearing times should prevail. 相似文献
Recent studies demonstrate that high-value chemicals can be obtained by selective conversion of polycyclic hydrocarbons such as naphthalene,biphenyl,and phenanthrene, over some zeolite catalysts. This article gives examples of shape-selective alkylation of naphthalene into 2,6-dialkylnaphthalene,ring-shift isomerization of sym-octahydrophenanthrene into sym-octahydroanthracene,shape-selective alkylation of biphenyl into 4,4'-dialkylbiphenyl,conformational isomerization of cis-decalin into trans-decalin,selective hydrogenation of naphthalene into either cis-or trans-decalin, and regio-selective hydrogenation of heteroatom-containing aromatic compounds such as 1-naphthol.The products of such selective reactions are specialty chemicals, monomers of advanced polymer materials such as high-performance polyesters, advanced engineering plastics,and liquid crystalline polymers,or components of advanced thermally stable aviation jet fuels for high-Mach aircraft. 相似文献
A series of poly(enamine ketone)s (PEAKs) which exhibit liquid crystalline phases has been synthesized. The enamine ketone groups are able to exist in the cis and trans conformations. Molecular modelling results show that the cis conformation is energetically more favorable due to intramolecular hydrogen bonding. Model compound studies indicate that the formation of the mesogen requires the cis conformation in the enamine ketones to stabilize the liquid crystalline phase. This liquid crystalline phase is nematic for the model compound and the polymers. The heats of liquid crystal transition in the model compound and in PEAKs are very close (4.7 kJ/mol in model compound and 4.0 kJ/mol of repeating units in polymers). This is not only an indication of a similar percentage of the cis conformation in both cases, but also an example that the flexible ethyleneoxy spacers in the polymers do not contribute to the orientational order of this liquid crystalline phase. PEAKs can crystallize through either quenching from the isotropic melt or from the liquid crystalline phase. Crystallization kinetics exhibit the effect of pre-ordering when these two different kinetics are compared. 相似文献
Novel thermotropic liquid crystalline polymers (TLCP) with improved processability and lower cost than Vectra® were synthesized by esterification and melt polycondensation. Aromatic compounds, 6-hydroxyl-2-naphthoic acid, 2,6-naphthlenedicarboxylic acid, 4-hydroxybenzoic acid or terephthalic acid, were used as polycyclic stiff rod-like mesogenic groups. Aliphatic diol, ethylene glycol or 1,4-butanediol was used as flexible spacers to form semi-flexible main chain TLCP. The LCP products were characterized by FT-IR and 1H NMR to identify their chemical structures. The analytical results showed the polymers had inherent viscosities of 0.35-0.54 dL/g. The crank shaft structure of the naphthalene decreased the melting temperature (Tm) of LCP (181-272 °C) to facilitate extrusion or injection molding, and maintained relatively high heat deflection temperature for high performance engineering plastics applications. The 5% weight loss decomposition temperatures were above 400 °C. LCPs have good solvent resistance and low hygroscopicity. The SEM morphology showed strong orientation on the surface in the flow direction and many micro-fibers structure in a sectional drawing. The optical textures of polymers observed by POM revealed a strong birefringence in the melts and indicated that they form nematic mesophase. All polymers have broad mesophase temperature (ΔTmeso) ranges. 相似文献
Several different series of rigid and flexible polyesters with main chain liquid crystalline units were prepared and their properties were examined in relation to their structures. The first group of polymers were rigid aromatic copolyesters with mesogenic groups based on either chloro or methyl hydroquinone terephthalate units combined with varying amounts of different types of bisphenol terephthalate units The bisphenol comonomers used contained the structure: in which X was none, ? C(CH3)2? , ? CH2? , ? O? , ? S? , and ? So2? . It was observed that the bisphenols with the bulkier X group were more efficient in destroying thermotropic liquid crystallinity of the resulting copolymers. The second group of polymers studied were flexible polyesters consisting of various types of mesogenic units which were connected together by different lengths of polymethylene flexible spacers. The liquid crystalline behaviours of these polymers, particularly their transition temperatures, were correlated with their structures. A brief review of previous studies on the synthesis of thermotropic liquid crystalline polyesters is included. 相似文献
Blends of poly(butylene terephthalate) (PBT) with three different thermotropic liquid crystalline polyesters (TLCPs) were prepared. The first TLCP (HBH-6) consists of diad aromaticester type mesogenic units and the hexamethylene spacers along the main chain, and the second (TB-S6) is a wholly aromatic polyester TLCP having alkoxy side groups on the terephthaloyl moiety. The last (TR-4,6) is an LC copolymer comsisting of triad aromatic ester type mesogenic units and two differents spacers; tetramethylene and hexamethylene units. Blends of TLCP with PBT were melt spum at different LCP contents and differnt draw ratios to produce monofilaments. For the HBH-6/PBT and TB-S6/PBT blends, the ultimate tensile strength showed a maximum value at the 5 wt% level of LCP in the blends, and then it decreased when the LCP content was increased up to 20%. On the other hand, the initial modulus monotonically increased with increasing LCP content in all cases. The blends with TB-S6 showed the highest tensile properties of the three blends systems. This can be ascribed to the highest rigidity of the polymer chain, which still carries relatively long alkoxy substituents that promote sufficient adhesion between the LCP and PBT matrix. When compared with the PBT fiber itself, the fibers obtained from the 5% TB-S6/PBT blends exhibited an improvement in tensile strength by > 25% and in tensile modulus by ~ 200%. 相似文献
Optical and electro-optical properties of side chain liquid crystalline polymers are described. The polymers studied were homopolysiloxanes with mesogenic side groups separated from the polymer backbone by flexible polymethylene spacers of varying length. The effect of the flexible spacer on the phase properties and electric field effects will be discussed. Low frequency a.c. fields induced a turbulent scattering texture, whilst at higher frequencies (> 1 kHz) a homeotropic alignment was obtained. The latter effect leads to high contrast displays which are durably stored at temperatures well above the glass transition. Various parameters affecting the response of the polymers to applied fields will also be discussed. These include temperature, frequency and magnitude of the electric field, film thickness and the length of the flexible spacer. 相似文献
Summary Three kinds of aromatic polyamides were synthesized by Higashi reaction: aromatic polyamides with even, odd number of methylenes and a meta phenylene as a joint in the main chain. Each polymer consisted of 7 p-phenylene-amide elements as a rigid segment. The polymer with even number of methylenes showed a lyotropic liquid crystalline behavior and a broader biphasic region than the fully para aromatic polyamide such as poly(p-phenylene terephthalamide). Most polymers with odd number of methylenes did not form a liquid crystalline phase and showed a crystallo-solvate. Exceptionally, the polymer with glutaryl unit was observed to have the swollen gel of colored pattern by the polarized microscope. The zigzag polymer, characterized by the highly kinetic rigidity, revealed an anisotropic gel phase in a solution. 相似文献
Summary Three series of new liquid crystalline (LC) copolymers having a polysiloxane backbone and two different mesogenic pendant groups, one involving a vinylacetic acid moiety in the spacer, have been synthesised. Thermal characterisation of these polymeers has allowed comparison of behaviour between a number of different copolymer systems. It was found that increasing amounts of the vinylacetic acid moiety lowered the clearing points (Ti) of the copolymers in an almost linear fashion whilst also inhibiting crystallinity in these polymers. 相似文献