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The anisotropy of orientational order in cholesteric liquid crystals is investigated within a mean-field model of the cholesteric phase. It is shown that this biaxiality emerges as a direct consequence of the helical structure of the phase and the chiral character of the intermolecular interactions. The dependence of the biaxiality on temperature and pitch is compared with recent NMR measurements.
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Lin‐Liu et al. (1983) studied this question.
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