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Novel ionic amphotropic liquid crystals, in which a hydrophilic poly(ethyleneimine) chain with hydroxy side-groups was attached to an azobenzene mesogenic core through an alkylene chain, showed a thermotropic smectic A mesophase and lyotropic smectic A and C mesophases.
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