Modeling Textural Processes during Self-Assembly of Plant-Based Chiral-Nematic Liquid Crystals
Biological liquid crystalline polymers are found in cellulosic, chitin, and DNA based natural materials. Chiral nematic liquid crystalline orientational order is observed frozen-in in the solid state in plant cell walls and is known as a liquid crystal analogue characterized by a helicoidal plywood...
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| Language: | English |
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MDPI AG
2010-12-01
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| Series: | Polymers |
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| Online Access: | http://www.mdpi.com/2073-4360/2/4/766/ |