Abstract  Flow microreactors are expected to make a revolutionary change in chemical synthesis in various fields of polymer synthesis. In fact, extensive studies on cationic polymerization, anionic polymerization, radical polymerization, coordination polymerization, polycondensation, and ring-opening polymerization using flow microreactor systems...

The combination of rubber elasticity and anisotropic liquid crystalline order of liquid crystalline elastomers (LCEs) gives rise to exceptional physical properties, unknown for conventional solid-state materials. By selecting suitable chemistry of the liquid crystalline moieties, the liquid crystalline phase structure, and the chemistry of the macromolecular...

Liquid Crystal Elastomers: Materials and Applications Content Type BookPublisher Springer Berlin / HeidelbergDOI 10.1007/978-3-642-31582-4Copyright 2012ISBN 978-3-642-31581-7Editors Wim H. de Jeu Book Series Advances in Polymer ScienceOnline ISSN 1436-5030Print ISSN 0065-3195 Book Series Volume Volume 250/2012

In recent years there has been an increasing amount of interest, both commercially and scientifically, in the emerging field of “self-reinforced polymer composites”. These materials, which are sometimes also referred to as “single polymer composites”, or “all-polymer composites”, were first conceived in the 1970s, and are now beginning to appear...