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Liquid crystal polymer

Liquid crystal polymer

Extracted from the Wikipedia article Liquid-crystal polymer.

Classification

LCPs are categorized by the location of liquid crystal cores. Due to the creation and research of different classes of LCPs, different prefixes are used to help the classification of LCPs. Main chain liquid crystal polymers (MCLCPs) have liquid crystal cores in the main chain. By contrast, side chain liquid crystal polymers (SCLCPs) have pendant side chains containing the liquid crystal cores.