Macromolecular Rapid Communications, Vol.25, No.5, 673-677, 2004
Thermotropic liquid-crystalline polymer derived from natural cinnamoyl biomonomers
The compound 4-hydroxycinnamic acid (4HCA), a natural biomonomer, is polymerized by melt polycondensation to yield a liquid-crystalline biopolymer (P4HCA) with UV reactivity L929 cells were successfully incubated on P4HCA films at 37degreesC.