Based on type, the liquid crystal polymer market is bifurcated into thermotropic and
lyotropic. Thermotropic LCPs accounted for a dominant share in the market during the historical period, accounting for more than 85% share in terms of value in 2017.
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CNPs can be fragmentized into smaller particles by lipases in the intestine but can still hold drugs in the lipid bilayer and avoid their precipitation in GI fluids by means of their
lyotropic features.
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Although some
lyotropic liquid crystalline phases, also known as "micellar phases", "mesophases", and "microemulsions", may appear to be similar to nanoemulsions in composition and nanoscale structure, such phases are actually quite different.
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The 13 contributions present molecular field analyses of biaxial phase diagrams, order parameters, the Landau theory of nematic phases, continuum theory,
lyotropic biaxial nematics, colloidal systems, and molecular design strategies for low molar mass thermotropic biaxial nematics.
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