Table of Contents

One Formation of Polymer Liquid Crystals.- 1 Creation of liquid crystalline phases: a comparative view emphasizing structure and shape of monomer liquid crystals.- 2Inorganic polymer liquid crystals.- 3 Design of polymer liquid crystals with non-covalent bonds.- 4 Morphology of thermotropic longitudinal polymer liquid crystals.- 5 Polymer liquid crystals in solution.- 2 Thermophysical Properties.- 6 Memory effects in polymer liquid crystals: influence of thermal history on phase behavior.- 7 Longitudinal polymer liquid crystal + engineering polymer blends: miscibility and crystallization phenomena.- 8 Thermal expansivity.- Three Mechanical Properties.- 9 Phase diagrams of polymer liquid crystals and polymer liquid crystal blends: relation to mechanical properties.- 10 Development and relaxation of orientation in pure polymer liquid crystals and blends.- 11 Flow-induced phenomena of lyotropic polymer liquid crystals: the negative normal force effect and bands perpendicular to shear.- 12 Creep and stress relaxation.- 13 Thermoreversible gelation of rigid rod-like and semirigid polymers.- 14 Elastic moduli of polymer liquid crystals.- 15 Computer simulations.

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