Comb-Shaped Polymers and Liquid Crystals [electronic resource] /

1 Structure of Comb-Shaped Polymers -- 1.1. Early Studies -- 1.2. The Amorphous State -- 1.3. The Crystalline State of Isotactic Poly(l-alkyl ethylene)s, Poly(l-alkyl ethylene oxide)s, and Poly(alkyl aldehyde)s -- 1.4. The Rotational-Crystalline State -- 1.5. Crystallization of Comb-Shaped Copolymers -- 1.6. Supermolecular Structure -- References -- 2 Molecular Mobility in Comb-Shaped Polymers -- 2.1. Effect of the Phase State on the Relaxation Properties -- 2.2. Rheological Properties of Comb-Shaped Poly(alkyl acrylate)s and Poly(l-alkyl ethylene)s -- References -- 3 Comb-Shaped Macromolecules in Solutions and Intramolecular Interactions -- 3.1. Optical Anisotropy -- 3.2. Conformational State and Intramolecular Mobility -- 3.3. Unperturbed Dimensions of the Macromolecules -- 3.4. Gel Formation in Solutions of Comb-Shaped Polymers -- References -- 4 Thermotropic Liquid-Crystalline Polymers -- 4.1. General Information on the Formation and Structure of Low-Molecular-Weight Liquid Crystals -- 4.2. The Liquid-Crystalline State in Linear Polymers -- 4.3. Synthesis of Liquid-Crystalline Polymers with Mesogenic Side Groups and Some Features of the Formation of Mesophases -- 4.4. Comb-Shaped Liquid-Crystalline Polymers -- 4.5. Features of the Properties of Thermotropic Liquid-Crystalline Polymers Correlated with Their Macromolecular Nature -- 4.6. Theory of the Liquid-Crystalline Ordering of Melts of Linear and Branched Macromolecules with Mesogenic Groups in the Main and Side Chains -- 4.7. Mechanisms of the Formation and Properties of the Smectic, Nematic, and Cholesteric Mesophases of Liquid-Crystalline Polymers with Mesogenic Side Groups -- 4.8. Behavior of Liquid-Crystalline Polymers in Electrical and Magnetic Fields -- 4.9. Behavior of Liquid-Crystalline Polymers with Mesogenic Side Groups in Dilute Solutions -- References.