Processing and Properties of Liquid Crystalline Polymers and LCP Based Blends

Description

Some papers in this book report on the most recent developments in pure liquid crystalline polymers showing that discipline is dynamic and may offer in the future numerous other opportunities not known today. We hope that our selections of papers will be interesting for specialists in polymer chemistry, blends, and their industrial application, and that information included in this book will be stimulating and will favorably impact research currently performed by the readers of this book. Content:• Front Matter • Preface • Table of Contents Structure and Rheology of Aramid Solutions: Relation to the Aramid Fiber Modulus Mechanical/Thermal Pretreatment of LCP Melts and Its Influence on the Rheological Behavior of These Polymers Synthesis, Processing, and Properties of Semirigid, Thermotropic Liquid-Crystalline Copolymers The Rheology of Liquid Crystal Polymer Blends Multicomponent Blends Based on Liquid Crystalline Polymers Melt Rheology and Morphology of in situ Composites Thermotropic Polymer Composites Characterization of Blends of Poly(phenylene sulfide) with a Liquid Crystalline Copolyesteramide Blends of Polycarbonate with Liquid Crystalline Polymers Blends Based on Engineering Polymers: The Effect of the Inclusion of Thermotropic Liquid Crystalline Polymers on the Physical Properties of the Matrix Formation and Stability of Liquid Crystalline Polymer Fibres in a Thermoplastic Elastomeric Matrix • Index