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PAPERBACK list:$17.00 Web:$15.30 add to cart PDF BOOK your price: $13.50 add to cart Rights & Permissions Free Resources PDF EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Display this book on your site! Related Titles High-Performance Structural Fibers for Advanced Polymer Matrix Composites Polymer Science and Engineering: The Shifting Research Frontiers Other Related Titles Liquid Crystalline Polymers (1990) Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems (CETS) Web Search Builder Use this book's key terms to search within this book, across our collection, or across the Web. Skim This Chapter Skim this chapter and use this chapter's key terms to search within this book. Reference Finder Paste in your own text to find books that relate to your topic. Page 103   E-mail  Facebook  Digg  Stumble  Twitter More Page 103 FRONT MATTER (R1-R14) EXECUTIVE SUMMARY (1-4) 1 CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS (5-12) 2 BACKGROUND (13-48) 3 PROPERTIES OF LIQUID CRYSTALLINE POLYMERS: CURRENT AND DESIRABLE CHARACTERISTICS (49-70) 4 PROBLEMS AND ISSUES: RECOMMENDATIONS FOR FURTHER WORK (71-100) A. CURRENT FUNDING LEVELS/SOURCES FOR LCP RESEARCH (101-102) B. GLOSSARY OF ABBREVIATIONS (103-104) C. BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF COMMITTEE MEMBERS (105-106)

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Appendix B GLOSSARY OF ABBREVIATIONS ABPBO AIBN BP CW DMA DS-2 El~onol~ FOM gP] Granlar~ HBA HNA HQ IA ICI IPN Ke~lar~ KTP LC(s) LCP(s) MQW Nd:YAG - NLO NOR poly(2,5 -benzoxazole) azobis isobutyronitrile bipheno! chemical warfare dynamic mechanical analysis a caustic mixture of chemicals used as a decontaminant Sumitomo polyester figure of merit grams per denier Granmont/Montedison Polymer LOP hydroxybenzoic acid hydroxynaphthoic acid hydroquinone isophthalic acid Imperial Chemical Industries interpenetrating network Du Pont lyotropic aramid LCP (Kevlar~ aramid fiber) (See PPTA) KTiOPO4 (potassium titanyl phosphate) liquid crystalts) liquid crystalline polymer~s) multiple quantum well neodymium yttrium aluminum garnet nonlinear optics or optical nuclear magnetic resonance 103

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104 OR NTP PBO PBZT PBX PE PEI PET PPTA PTS PVA SEED SHG SRP(ICI) - TA Vectra@) Vectran HIS' nonresonant naphthalene containing thermotropic polyesters polybenzobisoxazole polybenzobisthiazole PBO and PBZT polyethylene polyetherimide polyethylene terephthalate) Poly- p - phenyleneterephthalamide poly(2,4-hexadiyn-1,6-diol-bis-p-toluene sulfonate) polyvinyl alcohol) self-electro-optic device second-harmonic generation ICI polyester LCP terephthalic acid Hoechst-Celanese polyester LCP Hoechst-Celanese LCP Victrex ~- ICI Engineering polymer X7G~ Xydar~ Eastman polyester LCP Amoco polyester LCP

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