In the isotropic phase, it would recover a gaussian conformation. In a first step, a triblock whose the central part contains SiH groups, is synthetized via anionic polymerization. This strategy was tested successfully. Liquid crystalline polymers and chiral liquid crystals. As for polymer materials, aqueous gels have been mainly developed.
Aqueous gels suffer from strong limitations, the most important being slow response times.
We have first established that it was possible to polymerize the mesomorphic monomers Figure 1 - Mesomorphic norbornene monomer. Indeed, this knowledge allows to adapt more shrewdly the molecular architecture for a specific purpose. 3 - Chemical structure of the aromatic diamides. They are stabilized by two paraffinic bundles grafted on both molecular ends and could allow, for example, to obtain chiral multilamellar structures. Phasmids and polycatenar mesogens Adv.