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Infrared spectroscopy has been used to analyze the microstructures of liquid‐crystalline polymers in various mesophases. It was quite evident that there is little indication of conformational order associated with the flexible polymethylene sequences in the nematic or isotropic phases. However, additional spectroscopic evidence does suggest that polyesters with an even number of methylene units have a higher degree of lateral order when compared to those with an odd number in the liquid‐crystalline state.

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SynopsisThe rheological properties of fractionated thermotropic nematic polyesters 4,4dioxy-2,2dimethyl azoxybenzenenonanediyl ( n = 7) (AZA-9) and dodecanediyl ( n = 10) (DDA-9) have been determined under oscillatory shear in the nematic and isotropic phase. A markedly more pronounced shear thinning characterizes the polydisperse DDA-9 polymer as compared to the fractionated polymer in the nematic state. This difference becomes less pronounced in the isotropic phase. In all cases, the elastic compliance J' in the isotropic state is much lower than in the nematic state. The values of relaxation time h, although lower in the isotropic state, are not very different in the nematic state. The loss tangent tan S is significantly higher in the isotropic phase for lower molecular weights. For molecular weights of 13,000 and above, this difference becomes smaller and shifts to lower angular frequencies.xor MA-9 and DDA-9, &,, the limit of the dynamic viscosity can be represented by 7 ' = M: with a value of a similar for both phases and approximately equal to 4.

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