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http://dx.doi.org/10.5762/KAIS.2010.11.12.5216

Study on Rheological Properties of HBA/HNA Thermotropic Liquid Crystalline Polymer  

Son, Young-Gon (Division of Advanced Materials Science and Engineering, Kongju National University)
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Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society / v.11, no.12, 2010 , pp. 5216-5220 More about this Journal
Abstract
Rheological measurement of a thermotropic liquid crystalline poymer (TLCP) is not an easy task since their rheological responses are strongly influenced by a thermal history during a processing and thus the reproducibility of the measurement is poor. In order to find out a cause for the strong influence of the thermal history, rheological measurements and DSC observations of the TLCP having various thermal histories were carried out. It was observed that the TLCP used in this study shows liquid-like behavior at a temperature above a crystal-nematic transition temperature ($280^{\circ}C$), but at the same time crystallization can occur at this temperature range and as a consequence the viscosity of the polymer continuously increases. When the samples are heated beyond the $320^{\circ}C$, all crystals thus formed and the thermal histories were observed to disappear. Crystallization rate of the samples annealed above $320^{\circ}C$ was very low at even the lowed temperature ($280^{\circ}C\;{\sim}\;320^{\circ}C$). Therefore, it is concluded that rheological measurements of TLCP used in this study must be performed after annealed above the nematic-isotropic transition temperature for better reproducibility.
Keywords
HNA/HBA thermotropic liquid crystalline polymer; Rheological variation; Thermal history;
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