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Lyotropic chromonic liquid crystals (LCLCs) represent a novel type of liquid crystals formed by self-assembly of disk-shape molecules in aqueous environment. The underlying physics that governs the anisotropic elastic and viscous properties of such materials is fundamentally different from that of thermotropic LCs, lyotropic LCs formed by rigid rods, and lyotropic polymer LCs (LPLCs) formed by semi-flexible chains with fixed size.
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Zhou, S. (2017). Summary. In: Lyotropic Chromonic Liquid Crystals. Springer Theses. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-52806-9_6
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