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SUBMITTER: Liu X
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6854653 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Liu Xiaohong X Xu Yifei Y Heuts Johan P A JPA Debije Michael G MG Schenning Albert P H J APHJ
Macromolecules 20191029 21
The production of liquid crystalline (LC) polymer particles with a narrow size distribution on a large scale remains a challenge. Here, we report the preparation of monodisperse, cross-linked liquid crystalline particles via precipitation polymerization. This versatile and scalable method yields polymer particles with a smectic liquid crystal order. Although the LC monomers are randomly dissolved in solution, the oligomers self-align and LC order is induced. For the polymerization, a smectic LC ...[more]