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Physical Properties of Liquid Crystalline Materials

R M Wood
- 01 Jul 1981 - 
- Vol. 32, Iss: 7, pp 217-217
TLDR
The distinction between thermotropic and lyotropic liquid crystals is not made in the title of this book as mentioned in this paper, and it is to be regretted that the practice is growing, even among those knowledgeable in the field, of writing about liquid crystals as though a single type existed and the two processes for their formation produced similar molecular distributions.
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W H de Jeu 1980 New York: Gordon and Breach ix + 133 pp price $32 It is to be regretted that the practice is growing, even among those knowledgeable in the field, of writing about liquid crystals as though a single type existed and the two processes for their formation produced similar molecular distributions. The distinction between thermotropic and lyotropic liquid crystals is not made in the title of this book.

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TL;DR: It is reported that ferrocene-based tetratopic pyridyl ligands, which can dynamically change their geometry by means of thermal rotation of their cyclopentadienyl rings in solution, assemble with AgBF4 into discrete metal-organic nanotubes with large and uniform diameters.
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Surface Dipole Control of Liquid Crystal Alignment

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