LIQUID-CRYSTALLINE ORDERING IN POLYMER BRUSHES

Authors
BIRSHTEIN TM MERCURIEVA AA PRYAMITSYN VA POLOTZKIY A
Citation
Tm. Birshtein et al., LIQUID-CRYSTALLINE ORDERING IN POLYMER BRUSHES, Macromolecular theory and simulations, 5(2), 1996, pp. 215-223
Citations number
13
Categorie Soggetti
Polymer Sciences
Journal title
Macromolecular theory and simulations → ACNP
ISSN journal
10221344
Volume
5
Issue
2
Year of publication
1996
Pages
215 - 223
Database
ISI
SICI code
1022-1344(1996)5:2<215:LOIPB>2.0.ZU;2-R
Abstract
The mean-field theory of liquid crystalline (LC) ordering is developed for a polymer brush immersed in a solvent. Additional attraction betw een neighbouring parallel mesogenic segments of the grafted chains is taken into account. It is shown that LC ordering in this brush is conn ected with the loss of solubility and occurs as a discrete first-order phase transition which is similar or even identical to the transition in polymer solution.