The smectic liquid crystalline state of cholesteryl esters is believed to consist of planar arrays stacked with a repeat distance of 36 A. In the cholesteric liquid crystalline state cholesteryl ester molecules are ordered in helices about an axis at right angles to the long molecular axis.
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