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Springer Liquid-Crystal Polymers 1993 Edition by N.A. Plate
Drawing a picture of the current situation of this new field this volume both summarizes the past achievements and analyzes the present unsolved problems. Table of contents : Statistical Physics of Liquid-Crystalline Ordering in Polymer Systems (A.R. Khokhlov). Phase Equilibria in Polymer Systems Containing a Liquid Crystalline Phase (S.P. Papkov). Molecular Structure of Polymers with Mesogenic Groups (I.N. Shtennikova). The Mesomorphic State of FlexibleChain Polymers (Yu. K. Godovskii V.S. Papkov). Thermotropic Liquid-Crystal Polymers with Mesogenic Groups in the Main Chain (S.S. Skorokhodov). CombShaped Liquid-Crystal Polymers (V.P. Shibaev). Cholesteric Liquid-Crystal Polymers (Ya. S. Freidzon V.P. Shibaev). Structural Transformations of Thermotropic Liquid-Crystal Polymers in Electric and Magnetic Fields (R.V. Tal'roze N.A. Plate). Rheological Properties of Liquid-Crystal Polymers (V.G. Kulichikhin). HighStrength and HighModulus Fibers from Liquid-Crystal Polymers (A.V. Volokhina G.I. Kudryavtsev). Index.