| Abstract: | The trivial statement that liquid crystals are formed on the base of either mesogenic organic molecules or molecules with amphiphilic structure may be applied to polymers as well. But at the same time it became clear that polymer LC world in certain sense is richer than the low-molecular one and more and more one finds mesophase and LC polymers based on non-mesogenic macromolecules. Linear polyphosphazenes, polysiloxanes, some ladder polymers etc. exhibit mesophase behavior in absence of any mesogenic groups in their structure. |
