Learning outcomes - after studying this topic, you should be able to:

• describe lyotropic, nematic and smectic A & C thermotropic liquid crystals
• describe cubic, hexagonal and lamellar lyotropic liquid crystals
•  based on the structure of a molecule, predict whether it will exhibit liquid crystalline behaviour
• relate intermolecular forces to boiling points and surface tension

• Sections 7.6 - 7.8 (in Blackman, Bottle, Schmid, Mocerino and Wille, Chemistry, 3^rd Edition, 2015 (John Wiley))

• Solids (in ChemWiki)

Allotropes Tags: allotropes Contributed by Chiara Neto