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The liquid crystalline behavior of low molecular weight compounds has been known for more than a century; synthetic polymers have been manufactured on a large scale for several decades, but just recently it was found possible to produce polymers using the structural principles of liquid crystalline compounds. The resulting materials have, as expected, unusual properties. Numerous applications, not only in opto‐electronics, are already anticipated for such materials.
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