Thermotropic Phase Behaviour of Glycolipids: A Review

Abstract

Liquid crystal is known as mesophase that an intermediate state between conventional solids and isotropic liquids. Thermotropic liquid crystal (TLC) is one of the liquid crystals (LC) categorisation. In the thermotropic, the changes in temperature were produced in liquid crystal mesophase. Once the temperature increase, it will increase the energy and therefore the movement of the constituent molecule will stimulate phase changes. Glycolipid behaves as an amphiphilic molecule that possesses a polar carbohydrate head group a hydrophobic alkyl chain and is able to demonstrate liquid crystal phase behaviour.