On the miscibility of liquid crystalline polymers

We report on the feasibility of the thermodynamic miscibility of liquid crystalline polymers (LCPs) and their use as a new material approach for the reinforcement of engineering thermoplastics (TPs). In this work, we present the preliminary results of the study on binary model systems consisting of both a wholly aromatic and an aromatic-aliphatic miscible LCP blend. The ultimate goal of this approach is to develop multi-component miscible LCP blends having TP-compatible components which could be useful as processing-aids and reinforcement of TP composites. (C) 2000 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.