Olefin metathesis represents a comparably young area of chemistry. Originally strongly
related to Ziegler-Natta chemistry, its basic principles started to be elucidated as late as in …

Atom transfer radical polymerization (ATRP) is a living radical polymerization process
utilizing transition-metal complexes as catalysts to mediate the propagation of the …

This critical review covers the recent progress in the research of mesogen-jacketed liquid
crystalline polymers (MJLCPs), special side-on side-chain liquid crystalline polymers with …

Although major advances have been made during the past decade, the prize of developing
highly active homogeneous catalysts that can effect the liVing and stereospecific Ziegler …

Rigid polymer backbones have often been considered to be detrimental to the packing of
mesogenic pendants, and polyacetylenes have generally been regarded as unpromising …

Contrary to theoretical predictions on rodlike molecules (mixture of axial ratios) and previous
experimental speculations on side chain liquid crystalline polymers (mixture of molecular …

We report a new strategy to achieve triple shape memory properties by using side‐chain
liquid crystalline (SCLC) type random terpolymer networks (XL‐TP‐n), where n is the length …

A group of mesomorphic polyacetylenes with different lengths of alkyl spacer−{HC C [(CH 2)
m− OCO− Biph− OC7H15]} n−[1 (m), m= 2, 3, 4, 9] and orientations of ester bridge−{HC C …

We report synthesis and characterization of a new class of side-chain liquid crystalline
random terpolymers (SCLCP), its cross-linked network (SCLCN), and the corresponding …

We investigate supramolecular complexes where a mesogenic molecule, cholesteryl
hemisuccinate (CholHS), is hydrogen-bonded to a homopolymer, poly (4 …