Polymerizations of liquid crystalline solutions of cellulose diacetate (CDA) in acrylic acid (AA) and N‐vinyl‐2‐pyrrolidinone (NVP) were conducted in an attempt to prepare molecular composites (polymer blends) processing a rigid rod polymer with liquid crystalline orientation. CDA was found to form liquid crystalline solutions in both AA and NVP at concentrations avove 40 wt% CDA. Polymerization of anisotropic 50 wt% CDA‐AA and CDA‐NVP solutions occurred with considerable retention of the starting solution anisotropy and yielded homogeneous blends (1 Tg) when the rate of polymerization was fast relative to the phase separation of the free radically polymerizing AA or NVP with CDA. Slow polymerizations lead to phase separated blends (2 Tg).
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