Abstract
X-ray methods have been used to investigate the structure of liquid crystalline copolyesters prepared from 4-hydroxybenzoic acid (HBA) and 2-hydroxy-6-naphthoic acid (HNA). Fibre diagrams and meridional diffractometer scans have been obtained for melt-spun specimens of five HBA/HNA ratios: 25 75 , 30 70 , 50 50 , 58 42 and 75 25 . The data indicate a high degree of axial orientation. The lateral packing is more irregular but the observation of some equatorial and off-equatorial Bragg reflections indicates the presence of some three-dimensional order. The patterns differ in the number and position of the meridional maxima, and these can be predicted accurately by a point model for aperiodic chains of totally random sequence. The sensitivity of the data to monomer ratio is illustrated by calculations across the range of composition from 100% HBA to 100% HNA.
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