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Thermotropic and lyotropic liquid crystals share a common state of matter with many analogies in their structural and physical properties. However, these two fields of liquid crystalline research are usually treated completely separately.
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Bruckner, J.R. (2016). Aims and Scope of this Thesis. In: A First Example of a Lyotropic Smectic C* Analog Phase. Springer Theses. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-27203-0_2
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