Single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWNTs) can be dispersed at high concentration in
superacids; the protonation of SWNTs sidewalls eliminates wall− wall van der Waals …

This article summarizes recent experiments relating measurements of molecular orientation
to bulk rheological behavior in liquid crystalline polymers (LCPs) under shear. The principal …

A direct rheo-optical characterization of the flow-induced isotropic− nematic (I− N) transition
in a semiflexible thermotropic liquid-crystalline polymer (TLCP) was investigated, using a …

The phase transition and rheological behaviors of concentrated solutions of microcrystalline
cellulose (MCC) in an ionic liquid of 1-allyl-3-methylimidazolium chloride (AMIMCl) have …

The rigid-rod model is capable of predicting several rheological features of rodlike polymers
in the nematic phase. The model is formulated in terms of a nonlinear partial differential …

This paper sets down in detail the observation, first announced as a note (Romo-Uribe, A.;
Windle, AH Macromolecules 1993, 26, 7100), of a strident and reversible orientation …

Recent extensions of the Doi kinetic theory for monodisperse nematic liquids describe rigid,
axisymmetric, ellipsoidal macromolecules with finite aspect ratio. Averaging and presumed …

We have characterized the rheology of two concentrated, liquid crystalline solutions of poly
(γ benzyl–L–glutamate) of molecular weight 238 000 in m–cresol. Comparing these results …

To explore the concentration range of chitin whiskers (CHWs) aqueous suspensions with the
liquid crystalline state, and the correlation between liquid crystalline characteristic and …

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