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Mesophase formed by dissolving an amphiphilic mesogen in a suitable solvent, under appropriate conditions of concentration, temperature and pressure.

Note 1: The essential feature of a lyotropic liquid crystal is the formation of molecular aggregates or micelles as a result of specific interactions involving the molecules of the amphiphilic mesogen and those of the solvent.

Note 2: The mesomorphic character of a lyotropic mesophase arises from the extended, ordered arrangement of the solvent-induced micelles. Hence, such mesophases should be regarded as based not on the structural arrangement of individual molecules (as in a non- amphiphilic or a thermotropic mesophase), but on the arrangement within multimolecular domains.