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Plastic crystals are the counter part of liquid crystals, i.e. they are molecular crystals in which, in a certain temperature range, the molecular centers of mass form a regular crystal, while some disorder exists in the molecular orientations.
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Pick, R.M. (1980). Physical Properties of Plastic Crystals. In: Helfrich, W., Heppke, G. (eds) Liquid Crystals of One- and Two-Dimensional Order. Springer Series in Chemical Physics, vol 11. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-67848-6_5
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