One Formation of Polymer Liquid Crystals. - 1 Creation of liquid crystalline phases: a comparative view emphasizing structure and shape of monomer liquid crystals. - 2Inorganic polymer liquid crystals. - 3 Design of polymer liquid crystals with non-covalent bonds. - 4 Morphology of thermotropic longitudinal polymer liquid crystals. - 5 Polymer liquid crystals in solution. - 2 Thermophysical Properties. - 6 Memory effects in polymer liquid crystals: influence of thermal history on phase behavior. - 7 Longitudinal polymer liquid crystal + engineering polymer blends: miscibility and crystallization phenomena. - 8 Thermal expansivity. - Three Mechanical Properties. - 9 Phase diagrams of polymer liquid crystals and polymer liquid crystal blends: relation to mechanical properties. - 10 Development and relaxation of orientation in pure polymer liquid crystals and blends. - 11 Flow-induced phenomena of lyotropic polymer liquid crystals: the negative normal force effect and bands perpendicular to shear. - 12 Creep and stress relaxation. - 13 Thermoreversible gelation of rigid rod-like and semirigid polymers. - 14 Elastic moduli of polymer liquid crystals. - 15 Computer simulations. Language: English