Homeotropically-aligned main-chain and side-on liquid crystalline elastomer films with high anisotropic thermal conductivities

Nom de la revue
Chemical Communications
Meng Wang, Jun Wang, Hong Yang, Bao-Ping Lin, Er-Qiang Chen, Patrick Keller, Xue-Qin Zhang, Ying Sun
Abstract

Homeotropically-aligned main-chain and side-on liquid3crystalline elastomer films are reported. Their thermal conductivities in the normal direction are both dramatically higher than those along the horizontal direction.