| Liquid crystals (LCs) have been the source of vast attention of scientific community during last few decades. The unique properties of LCs and their wide applicability have been thoroughly investigated. However, the process of evaluating their applicability for different fields has been initiated from their synthesis and successful characterization. There are certain characterization techniques which assess the ability of a certain compound to exhibit liquid crystalline properties as all related compounds may not have shown LC behavior and hence not an ideal candidate for further applicability. In our current contribution, a brief literature review has been compiled to account for different characterizing techniques for LCs (only last 5-years literature has been considered). |
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