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Nematic Phase: A phase of liquid crystals where the molecules are oriented in the same direction but are not arranged in layers. Smectic Phase: A phase of liquid crystals characterized by layered ...

X-ray diffraction studies showed that this phase—dubbed the M2 phase—was both layered and highly tilted, suggesting the possibility of a new smectic phase. We report on studies of freely suspended ...

The results of the WAXD and thin-film WAXD indicated that the alternating copolymer possessed a smectic liquid-crystalline phase at ambient temperature with a couple of fluoroalkyl side chains ...

clustering instabilities and complex phase behavior in soft colloids, the nonequilibrium steady state behavior of active liquid crystalline matter, mechanisms of charge transport in liquid crystalline ...