Term: liquid-crystalline polymer
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Definition:
Polymeric material that, under suitable conditions of temperature, pressure, and concentration, exists as a liquid-crystalline mesophase.

Note: A liquid-@C01432@ 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-@C01432@) or in solution (lyotropic liquid-@C01432@).

Related Terms:
1) liquid crystal (http://doi.org/10.1351/goldbook.LT06856).
2) crystalline polymer (http://doi.org/10.1351/goldbook.C01432).
3) polymeric (http://doi.org/10.1351/goldbook.M03667).
4) mesophase (http://doi.org/10.1351/goldbook.M03849).

Source: PAC, 2004, 76, 889. 'Definitions of terms relating to reactions of polymers and to functional polymeric materials (IUPAC Recommendations 2003)' on page 900 (https://doi.org/10.1351/pac200476040889)

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

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