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A supramolecular nematic phase in sulfonated polyaramides

Sebastien Viale, Adam S. Best, Eduardo Mendes, Wolter F. Jager, Stephen J. Picken

Chemical Communications · 2004 · 37 citations · 11 references

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Abstract

A water-soluble polyaramide "sulfo-invert-PPTA" surprisingly, already at a molecular weight of 10,000 g mol(-1), exhibits a nematic liquid crystalline phase in water at very low polymer concentrations, around 1-2wt%, indicating that supramolecular assemblies of molecules are the building blocks of the nematic phase.

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