1. Liquid crystals can be divided into thermotropic, lyotropic and metallotropic phases. 2. Soap is an everyday example of a lyotropic liquid crystal. 3. There are several different type of lyotropic liquid crystal structures. 4. His early work was mainly on lyotropic liquid crystals and lipid membranes. 5. Other examples include DNA and Kevlar, which dissolves in sulfuric acid to give a lyotropic phase. 6. "' Isotropic formulations "'are thermodynamically stable microemulsions possessing lyotropic liquid crystal properties. 7. Thermotropic and lyotropic liquid crystals consist mostly of organic molecules, although a few minerals are also known. 8. Lyotropic liquid crystal phases are formed on the dissolution of amphiphilic molecules of a material in a solvent.9. Lyotropic liquid-crystalline phases are abundant in living systems but can also be found in the mineral world.10. These liquid crystalline phases are closer in architecture to thermotropic liquid crystalline phases than to the conventional lyotropic phases.
