Stiff Chain Polymer Lyotropic Liquid Crystals

Effect of Magnetic and Mechanical Fields on Phase Liquid Crystalline Transitions in Solutions of Cellulose Derivatives

“…The theory has been verified for lyotropic liquid crystals of PBG in a number of different solvents (Chandrasekhar, 1977, Iizuka, 1973, DuPre & Duke, 1974, 1975, DuPre et al, 1976, Patel & DuPre, 1979. Molecules of liquid crystals orient themselves in the magnetic field so that their long chains are oriented parallel to the magnetic field lines (Miller, 1978). This orientation is associated with the molecular anisotropy of macromolecules rather than the existence of permanent magnetic moments.…”

Phase diagrams and rheological properties of cellulose ether solutions in magnetic field

“…The theory has been verified for lyotropic liquid crystals of PBG in a number of different solvents [42][43][44][45]. Molecules of liquid crystals orient themselves in the magnetic field so that their long chains are oriented parallel to the magnetic field lines [46]. This orientation is associated with the molecular anisotropy of macromolecules rather than with the existence of permanent magnetic moments.…”

Phase transitions in lyotropic colloidal and polymer liquid crystals

“…There are also some other models based on the wormlike chain which we can only mention here: an extension of the Flory theory to wormlike chains (Ronca and Yoon 1982, 1985 and theories using a Maier-Saupe potential (Ten Bosch et al 1983, \torner et al 1985. As a last point we want to draw attention to some monographs and review papers on liquid crystals (De Gennes 1974, Stephen and Straley 1974, Chandrasekhar 1977, Luckhurst and Gray 1979, Vertogen and De Jeu 1988, Frenkel 1991 and liquid crystalline polymers (Straley 1973a, Blumstein 1978, Grosberg and Khokhlov 1981, Ciferri et al 1982, Miller 1982, Samulski and DuPré 1983, Gordon and Plate 1984, Khokhlov and Semenov 1985, Ciferri and Marsano 1987, Semenov and Khokhlov 1988, DuPré and Yang 1991, which might be helpful for the reader.…”