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I.M. Saez, J.W. Goodby: Supermolecular Liquid Crystals.- J.-H. Ryu, M. Lee: Liquid Crystalline Assembly of Rod-coil Molecules.- H. Kikuchi: Liquid Crystalline Blue Phases:- S.J. Rowan, P.T. Mather: Supramolecular Interactions in the Formation of Thermotropic Liquid Crystalline Polymers.- M. Funahashi, H. Shimura, M. Yoshio, T. Kato: Functional Liquid Crystalline Polymers for Ionic and Electronic Conduction.- D.L. Gin, C.S. Pecinovsky, J.E. Bara, R.L. Kerr: Functional Lyotropic Liquid Crystal Materials