We report observations of optical birefringence indicative of spontaneous, long-range, nematic alignment in gels of polydiacetylene 4BCMU in toluene. The results indicate that an order parameter with magnitude of only {~} 10^-2 is maintained over macroscopic distances in an otherwise random system.
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