Columnar phase

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Experimentally, discotic liquid crystals were first discovered by Sivaramakrishna Chandrasekhar for the benzene-hexa-n-alkanoates in 1977 Ref. 1

References

  1. S Chandrasekhar, B K Sadashiva and K A Suresh "Liquid crystals of disc-like molecules", Pramana 9 pp. 471-480 (1977)
  2. Pier Luigi Cristinziano and Francesco Lelj "Atomistic simulation of discotic liquid crystals: Transition from isotropic to columnar phase example", Journal of Chemical Physics 127 134506 (2007)