Symmetry and Liquid Crystals
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Liquid crystals are aggregates of individual molecules due to moderate intermolecular interactions, which roughly divided into lyotropic liquid and thermotropic [...]
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Symmetry
سال: 2023
ISSN: ['0865-4824', '2226-1877']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/sym15030691