Original Article
  • Time-Temperature-Transition Diagrams with Liquid Crystalline Phase Changes of Liquid Crystalline Epoxy

  • Seung Hyun Cho*†

  • * Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Soong-sil University

  • 열경화성 액정 에폭시 수지의 액정상 변화를 포함한 시간-온도-전이 다이어그램

  • 조승현*†

  • This article is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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Correspondence to

  • Seung Hyun Cho

  • Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Soong-sil University

  • E-mail: scho@ssu.ac.kr