• Macromolecular Research
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• v.14 no.3
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• pp.261-266
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• 2006

Blends of silicone rubber (VMQ) and liquid crystalline polymer (LCP) were prepared using a melt blending technique in the presence and absence of glass fiber and coupling agents. The effect of glass fiber and coupling agents on the thermal, dynamic mechanical, morphological pro-perties and cure characteristics of VMQ/LCP blends were studied. The vinyl silane coupling agent showed a significant effect on the above mentioned properties of VMQ/LCP blends by reacting at the interface between VMQ and LCP. The viscosity of the VMQ/LCP blends decreased with the addition of a coupling agent. A substantial improvement in storage modulus of VMQ/LCP blends was observed in the presence of glass fiber and coupling agents. However, as a coupling agent vinyl silane proved to be better than amine for the VMQ/LCP-glass-containing blends. The thermal stability of the pure silicone rubber was higher than those of the blends. This high thermal stability of silicone rubber was attributed to the Si-O-Si bonds. However, the thermal stability of the blends decreased further in the presence of a coupling agent, possibly due to a decrease in blend crystallinity.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers A
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• v.24 no.7 s.178
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• pp.1703-1711
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• 2000

Microstructural morphology of molded composites of thermotropic liquid crystalline polymer(LCP) and polyamide 6 (PA6) has been studied as a function of epoxy fraction. Injection-moulding of a thin composite plaque at a temperature below the melting point of the LCP fibrils by suing the extruded LCP/PA6 pellets produced multi-layered structures: 1) the surface skin layer with thickness of 65-120 ym exhibiting a transverse orientation, 2) the sub-skin layer with an orientation perpendicular to the surface skin, i.e. in the flow direction, 3) the core layer with arc-curved flow patterns. Similar microstructural orientations were observed in the respective layers for the composite plaques with different fractions of epoxy.

• Proceedings of the Polymer Society of Korea Conference
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• 2006.10a
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• pp.132-132
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• 2006

Filler loading (fiber or particulate) usually increases the melt viscosity of polymers. In contrast, the addition of these fillers and fibrillation of thermotropic liquid crystalline polymer (LCP) jointly decreased the viscosity of polymer melts to lower than those of pure component polymers, filler-loaded or LCP-blended ones; and even decreased the viscosity with increasing filler loading. Termed as rheological hybrid effect, this phenomenon correlated well with the LCP fibrillation in these ternary systems. Research taking fillers of various shapes and sizes showed that the filler addition promoted the LCP fibrillation, depending upon thermodynamic and dynamic factors involved.

• Elastomers and Composites
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• v.54 no.1
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• pp.14-21
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• 2019

Main-chain/side-chain liquid crystalline polymers (MCSCLCPs) combined with an azobenzene group and a cholesteryl group were synthesized to impart light and temperature sensitivity to the polymer. The polymers were designed with the azobenzene unit as the mesogenic group of the main-chain and various compositions of the azobenzene and cholesteryl units as the mesogenic group of the side-chain. The chemical structures and physical properties of the synthesized polymers were investigated by Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy, proton nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy, differential scanning calorimetry, thermogravimetric analysis, polarized optical microscopy, and ultraviolet-visible (UV-Vis) spectroscopy. All the MCSCLCPs were amorphous and exhibited enantiotropic liquid crystal phases; these polymers achieved the nematic phase with increasing content of the azobenzene group and exhibited the cholesteric phase with weak liquid crystallinity as the content of the cholesteryl group was increased. Furthermore, the polymers containing the azobenzene group showed photoisomerization when exposed to UV-Vis light, and the CP-A3C7 and CP-A5C5 polymers exhibited thermochromism in the temperature range of the liquid crystal phase.

• Polymer(Korea)
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• v.35 no.2
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• pp.176-182
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• 2011

Liquid crystalline aromatic polyesters (LCPs) are representative examples of thermotropic liquid crystalline polymers, whose structure-property relationships have been the subject of many researches. In this study, we synthesized organo-soluble liquid crystalline aromatic polyesters, and their composites with acetylene-terminated thermoset resins were prepared and characterized. Soluble LCPs were synthesized by employing 6-hydroxy-2-naphthoic acid, terephthalic acid, isophthalic acid, and 4-aminophenol as monomers via condensation polymerization based on transesterfication and transamidation. Acetylene-terminated thermoset resins were synthesized by the reaction of 4-ethynylaniline with terephthaloyl dichloride, isophthaloyl dichloride or 4,4'-biphenyldicarbonyl dichloride. We prepared the soluble LCP/thermoset composites by solution blending followed by thermal treatment. The thermal stability, thermal expansion coefficient, and dielectric properties of the composite were studied.

• Analytical Science and Technology
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• v.8 no.4
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• pp.493-498
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• 1995

PAZO-6 is a new combined type liquid crystalline polymers (LCP) which has two types of mesogens combined non linearly. Ordering of branch mesogen azo group, in PAZO-6 is an important parameter to observe as well as the substitution effect on the backbone. The related small molecules sllch as monomers as well as the polymer itself are studied by solid state NMR techniques. Preliminary $^{13}C$ CP/MAS (cross polarization/ magic angle spinning) spectral results suggest that the azo groups in the monomers are not aligned with themselves. Azo groups in the monomers seem to be poorly ordered between well ordered p-phenylene terephthalate moeities. Similar disordering tendency of the azo group in PAZO-6 is deduced from the overall aromatic carbon peak positions which are not much different from those of the monomer.

• Korean Journal of Materials Research
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• v.10 no.5
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• pp.350-353
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• 2000

Thermotropic liquid crystalline polymer(LCP) has been used for the alignment of ferroelectric liquid crystal (FLC) molecules and the surface morphology of the resulting polymeric thin film has been observed by atomic forced microscope. The uniform alignment of FLC molecules on the surface of thermotropic LCP thin film was obtained even though microgroove structures were not formed. The contrast ratio of sample cell was about 23:1 including two polarizers and a good memory capability due to the bistability of FLC was obtained. After AC field stabilization at 20V, the typical stripe-shaped patterns appeared.

• The Korean Journal of Rheology
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• v.9 no.2
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• pp.53-59
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• 1997

열방성 액정고분자(LCP)와 polycarbonate(PC) poly(ether imide) (PEI) poly(PEEK), polysulfone(PSF), 그리고 polyarylsulfone(PAS)과의 블렌드에 대한 상용성을 연구하였다. 제조된 블렌드의 상거동에서 액정고분자가 PC-, PEI-, PEEK-, PSF-, 그리고 PAS-rich 상 에 녹아 들어가는 양이 PC, PEI, PEEK, PSF, 그리고 PAS가 액정 고분자 -rich상에 녹아들 어가는 양보다 많음을 알수 있었다. 측정된 블렌드의 유리전이온도 결과로부터 PC, PEI, PEEK와 액정고분자 사이의 상용성이 PSF, PAS와 액정 고분자 사이의 상용성에 비하여 더 좋음을 알수 있었다. 액정 고분자의 이방성을 고려하여 고분자-고분자 상호작용계수($\chi$12)를 결정하였으며, PC, PEI, PEEK, PSF, 그리고 PAS를 포함한 액정 고분자 블렌드에서 $\chi$12는 0.078-0.183으로 나타났다.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.7 no.4
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• pp.559-566
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• 2006

The isothermal crystallization behavior of blends of poly(ethylene terephthalate) and liquid crystalline polymers(LCP) was studied. The Avrami analyses were applied to obtain the information on the crystal growth geometry and factors controlling the rate of crystallization. The crystallization kinetics for the blends followed the classical Avrami equation up to a high degree of crystallization regardless of crystallization temperature, The values of Avrami exponent, n, for PET in the blends were estimated to be around 2, which indicate that the polymer crystals grow into one-dimensional linear or fiber-like crystallization mode. The crystallization rate, as expected, decreases with increasing the crystallization temperature.

• Applied Chemistry for Engineering
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• v.30 no.2
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• pp.219-225
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• 2019

Side-chain liquid crystalline polymers with various compositions of azobenzene and cholesteryl functional groups as the mesogenic moiety were synthesized by direct polycondensation, and their properties were investigated. The inherent viscosity values of synthesized polymers were between 0.32 and 0.38 dL/g in 1,1,2,2-tetrachloroethane. All polymers except the SP-A10C0 polymer containing only the azobenzene group were amorphous or exhibited very low crystallinity due to the presence of bulky mesogenic side chains. All synthesized polymers exhibited enantiotropic liquid crystallinity; the SP-A10C0 polymer having only the azobenzene group exhibited a nematic phase, and all other polymers showed a cholesteric phase. In particular, it was found that when the content of cholesteryl groups in the side chain of the polymer increases, the liquid crystallinity decreases due to the bulkiness of cholesteryl groups.