Highly branched polymers

Abstract

Well‐defined, large dendritic molecules with branches at almost every repeat unit have recently been shown to form ordered structures such as gels and liquid‐crystalline phases. The highly branched Highly Branched Polymers polyamide shown in the Figure forms, for example, a nematic phase as a 40 wt‐% solution in amides, and as a 60 wt‐% solution forms a gel static conditions but becomes fluid under shear stress. magnified image