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Abstract
We describe and analyse in this paper the behaviour of solutions of side-chain liquid crystalline polymers (LCP) in molecular compounds in their smectic A phases. We give evidence for a straight correlation between phase separation and the difference in smectic layer spacings of the components of the binary system. In addition, making use of materials containing fluorinated segments, we show that fluorocarbon moieties greatly enhance the incompatibility of the mixture.