Abstract
Nematic liquid crystallinity (2,3) is exhibited by certain compounds having relatively rigid, polar, rod-shaped molecules which tend to be oriented with their long axes parallel due to mutual attractive forces. On heating such a compound, the crystalline solid melts to an anisotropic liquid (mesophase) in which neighboring molecules lie parallel to one another. At a higher temperature, disorientation of the ordered molecular arrangement occurs and there is a transition to isotropic liquid.
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Schroeder, J.P., Schroeder, D.C., Katsikas, M. (1970). Nematic Mixtures as Stationary Liquid Phases in Gas-Liquid Chromatography. In: Johnson, J.F., Porter, R.S. (eds) Liquid Crystals and Ordered Fluids. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-8214-0_12
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