liquid-crystalline polymer 

Also contains definition of: liquid crystal polymer
https://doi.org/10.1351/goldbook.LT07176
Polymeric material that, under suitable conditions of temperature, pressure, and concentration, exists as a liquid-crystalline mesophase.
Note:
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).
See also: liquid crystal
Source:
PAC, 2004, 76, 889. (Definitions of terms relating to reactions of polymers and to functional polymeric materials (IUPAC Recommendations 2003)) on page 900 [Terms] [Paper]
Citation: 'liquid-crystalline polymer' in IUPAC Compendium of Chemical Terminology, 5th ed. International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry; 2025. Online version 5.0.0, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1351/goldbook.LT07176 RIS BibTex EndNote
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