Apart from the well known states of matter, crystal solid, liquid and gassy, in the 80s
Glenn Brown introduced a fourth state, between the crystal and liquid states, calling it
the liquid crystal state. So from then on tidy and organised systems formed through the
combination of amphiphile and watery substances became known as liquid liotropic
crystals. Liotropic liquid crystals are a mixture of amphiphilic compounds stabilised by
the attraction of the molecules of a polar solvent, usually water.