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Mesogenic Order-Disorder Distributions

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Polymeric Liquid Crystals

Part of the book series: Polymer Science and Technology ((POLS,volume 28))

Abstract

Matter — at least within our scope of space and time — seems to have endeavored for a period of 10–20 billion years to gain a certain consciousness and understanding of itself (Fig. 1). Among the molecular species, screened by evolution in a Darwinian selection for suitable constituents of a dynamic reality-adaption pattern, amphiphilic molecules that did not only reflect hydrophilic-hydrophobic but also order-disorder distributions were rendered preferred survivors of the “grand” process.

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Hoffmann, S. (1985). Mesogenic Order-Disorder Distributions. In: Blumstein, A. (eds) Polymeric Liquid Crystals. Polymer Science and Technology, vol 28. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-2299-1_28

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