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Metal Containing Liquid Crystalline Polymers

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2015

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Liquid Crystalline Polymers: Volume 1-Structure and Chemistry

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Springer International Publishing

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Design and synthesis of multifunctional single molecules stabilizing liquid-crystalline phases are significant from both fundamental research and application point of views. This task seems to be fulfilled, in part, by metallomesogenic polymers or metal containing liquid crystal polymers (MLCPs) due to two promising elements- liquid crystallinity and metal centre in a single molecular unit with the processability of polymers. The variety of readily available metals incorporated into these mesogenic polymers introduces new physical properties and, consequently, new applications in the field of polymeric materials traditionally based on a few elements (C, H, N, O, halogens, S, P). In recent years enormous growth has occurred in the field of science and technology of metallomesogenic polymers as evident from a large number of publications on these materials. The present chapter will firstly describe general concept of metal containing liquid crystal polymers followed by classification of MLCPs in terms of their mesogenic behaviour (thermotropic and lyotropic) and chemical structures. A brief introduction of synthetic strategies i.e. molecular engineering of MLCPs will be presented in next section to draw a clear concept behind the designing of these functional materials. A special section will be devoted to recent advances including borderline cases in the field of metal containing liquid crystal polymers followed by concluding remarks and future perspective. © Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016.

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Liquid Crystals, Metal complexes, Metallomesogen polymers, Polymers

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