Polymeric material that, under suitable conditions of temperature, pressure, and concentration,
exists as a liquid-crystalline
mesophase.
Notes:
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- A liquid-crystalline polymer can exhibit one or more liquid state(s) with one- or two-dimensional, long-range
orientational order over certain ranges of temperatures either in the melt (thermotropic
liquid-crystalline polymer) or in solution (lyotropic liquid-crystalline polymer).
Source:
PAC, 2004, 76, 889
(Definitions of terms relating to reactions of polymers and to functional polymeric
materials (IUPAC Recommendations 2003))
on page 900
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IUPAC. Compendium of Chemical Terminology, 2nd ed. (the "Gold Book"). Compiled by
A. D. McNaught and A. Wilkinson. Blackwell Scientific Publications, Oxford (1997).
XML on-line corrected version: http://goldbook.iupac.org (2006-) created by M. Nic,
J. Jirat, B. Kosata; updates compiled by A. Jenkins. ISBN 0-9678550-9-8.
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