Long‐range‐oriented liquid‐crystalline polymers (LCPs) can exhibit anisotropic mechanical, optical, electrical, and magnetic properties. The macroscopic orientation of LCPs proceeds relatively slowly and incompletely compared to low molecular weight liquid crystals. Here, the photopolymerization of thin films of nematically ordered LC monomers is shown to lead to oriented LCPs with high thermal conductivities.
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Hammerschmidt et al. (1993) studied this question.