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Lamellar single crystals, ca. 100Å thick and with predominantly reentrant chain folding have been grown from the quiescent and sheared liquid crystalline state of a liquid crystalline random configuration terpolymer containing C7 flexible segment.
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Kent, S., Geil, P.H. Chain folding in single crystals and sheared (“fiber”) samples of a liquid crystal polymer. Polymer Bulletin 26, 579–585 (1991). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01032685
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