| Autor: |
Noel A. Clark, Andreas Herrmann, Alessio Marcozzi, Kai Liu, Dong Chen, Diego Pesce, Juanjuan Su, Anke Kolbe, Klaus Müllen, Wojciech Pisula, Wojciech Zajaczkowski, Lifei Zheng |
| Přispěvatelé: |
Polymer Chemistry and Bioengineering, Nanotechnology and Biophysics in Medicine (NANOBIOMED) |
| Jazyk: |
angličtina |
| Rok vydání: |
2014 |
| Předmět: |
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| Zdroj: |
Proceedings of the National Academy of Science of the United States of America, 111(52), 18596-18600. NATL ACAD SCIENCES |
| ISSN: |
0027-8424 |
| Popis: |
Significance Liquid crystals (LCs) found in biology are usually dispersed in a solvent, typically water, and are therefore classified as lyotropic. However, from a technological perspective, thermotropic LCs (TLCs), typically based on small rod- or disc-shaped organic molecules, have been of much greater importance. In this contribution, we show that thermotropic liquid crystal phases and materials can also be made from biomolecules, demonstrating a simple generic method to form thermotropic phases from biosystems ranging from nucleic acids and proteins to even whole viruses, spanning a size from only a few nanometers to 1 μm. |
| Databáze: |
OpenAIRE |
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