MESOMORPHISM IN POLYMERS AND ITS MECHANOTROPIC VARIETY 
FOR POLYETHYLENE IN BINARY POLYMER BLENDS BASED ON IT

E. M. Antipova and J. W. M. 
Noordermeerb 

UDC 541.64:539.2

For the first time, an attempt has been made to illustrate 
the diversity of different forms of mesomorphism in flexible- and 
rigid-chain linear polymers whose macromolecules do not contain mesogenic 
groups. The emphasis has been on description of new structural varieties 
that are equilibrium mesophases from the thermodynamic viewpoint. 
Concrete examples of unusual two-dimensional and one-dimensional forms 
of ordering, recently found by the authors for a number of high-molecular-weight 
compounds, have been given.

aA. V. Topchiev Institute of Petrochemical Synthesis, 
Russian Academy of Sciences, 29 Lenin Ave., Moscow, 119991, 
Russia; email: antipov@ips.ar.ru; bUniversity of Twente, 
PO Box 217, 7500 AE Enschede, The Netherlands. Translated from 
Inzhenerno-Fizicheskii Zhurnal, Vol. 78, No. 5, pp. 10-18, September-
October, 2005. Original article submitted October 13, 2004.