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The Sensitivity of Small Molecule Sorption to Annealing in Glassy Liquid Crystalline Polymers
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 15 February 2011
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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.
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