Soft contact lenses and ablative heat shields for spacecraft require materials with vastly different physical properties. Yet the materials for both—permeable elastic membranes and tenacious high‐temperature composities—are products of polymer science.
REFERENCES
1.
A recent general review of this subject may be found in Polymer Liquid Crystals, A. Ciferri, W. R. Krigbaum, R. B. Meyer, eds., Academic, New York (1982).
2.
E. T. Samulski in Liquid Crystalline Order in Polymers, A. Blumstein, ed., Academic, New York (1978);
D. B. Du Pré, E. T. Samulski, in Liquid Crystals, F. D. Saeva, ed., Marcel Dekker, New York (1979) page 203.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.
11.
12.
13.
G.
Marrucci
, A.
Ciferri
, J. Polym. Sci., Polym. Lett. Ed.
15
, 643
(1977
).14.
R. B. Meyer in reference 1.
15.
P. G.
de Gennes
, Mol. Cryst. Liq. Cryst. Lett.
34
, 177
(1977
) and in reference 1.16.
J. R.
Fernandes
, D. B.
Du Pré
, Mol. Cryst. Liq. Cryst. Lett.
72
, 67
(1981
) and private communication.17.
G. Menges, G. Hahn, Modern Plastics, October 1981, page 56;
18.
19.
20.
L.
Liebert
, L.
Strzelecki
, D.
Van Luyen
, A. M.
Levelut
, Eur. Polym. J.
17
, 71
(1981
).
This content is only available via PDF.
© 1982 American Institute of Physics.
1982
American Institute of Physics
You do not currently have access to this content.
