Mechanical properties, solubilities, and processabilities in the design of the first super-strong liquid-crystalline polymers.

摘要

Solidified super-strong (SS) liquid-crystalline polymers (LCPs) are designed to be the first polymers to have good compressive strengths, as well as to have tensile strengths and tensile moduli significantly greater than existing strong LCPs (i.e., backbone LCPs, such as Kevlar). These SS LCPs have also been designed with certain features to give good solubilities and processabilities. This paper covers the enhanced mechanical properties, solubilities and processabilities of the super-strong liquid crystal polymers. 16 refs., 1 fig., 1 tab.