Xinhua Wan

TL;DR: The semi-rigid rod-like MJLCP with a tunable rod shape in both length and diameter provides an excellent building block in designing novel rod-coil liquid crystalline block copolymers which can self-assemble into hierarchical supramolecular nanostructures depending on the competition between liquid crystal formation and microphase separation.

TL;DR: A novel observation of the tetragonal perforated layer structures in a series of rod-coil liquid crystalline block copolymers, poly(styrene-block-(2,5-bis[4-methoxyphenyl]oxycarbonyl)styrene) (PS-b-PMPCS) is reported.

TL;DR: The phase structures and transition behaviors of a series of mesogen-jacketed liquid crystalline polymers, poly{2,5-bis[(4-methoxyphenyl)oxycarbonyl]styrenes} (PMPCS), with different molecular weights (MW) and narrow MW distributions were studied using differential scanning calorimetry, polarized light microscopy, Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy, and one-and two-dimensional wide-angle X-ray diffraction experiments as mentioned in this paper.

TL;DR: This review highlights valuable contributions in the past six years on the self-assembly behavior of rod-coil BCPs controlled by the volume fraction and the composition of the blocks from both the experimental and theoretical perspectives, and their tunable self-assembled nanostructures triggered by external stimuli, such as solvent, pH, temperature, light, and chemical additives.

TL;DR: In this paper, a group of cyano-containing acetylene monomers are polymerized by the simple metal halides, suggesting that the tungsten-oxo complexes are involved in the active center formation.