Elastic constants of biological filamentous colloids: estimation and implications on nematic and cholesteric tactoid morphologies-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

Elastic constants of biological filamentous colloids: estimation and implications on nematic and cholesteric tactoid morphologies

Published:2021 Issue:8 Volume:17 Page:2158-2169
ISSN:1744-683X
Container-title:Soft Matter
language:en
Short-container-title:Soft Matter

Author:

Bagnani Massimo¹²³^ORCID,Azzari Paride¹²³,De Michele Cristiano⁴⁵⁶⁷^ORCID,Arcari Mario¹²³^ORCID,Mezzenga Raffaele¹²³⁸⁹^ORCID

Affiliation:

1. ETH Zurich, Department of Health Sciences and Technology

2. LFO E23 Zurich 8092

3. Switzerland

4. “Sapienza” Universita' di Roma

5. Dipartimento di Fisica

6. 00185 Roma

7. Italy

8. ETH Zurich

9. Department of Materials

Abstract

Biological liquid crystals, such as cellulose and amyloid fibrils, show a physical behaviour difficult to predict and characterize. Here we present four different techniques to estimate the elastic constant K₁, K₂ and K₃ for three different biological filamentous colloids.

Publisher

Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)

Subject

Condensed Matter Physics,General Chemistry

Link

http://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlepdf/2021/SM/D0SM01886D

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