Smectic phase in suspensions of gapped DNA duplexes

Smectic phase in suspensions of gapped DNA duplexes

DNA can be used as a tunable building block to create a variety of self-assembly-driven liquid crystals. Here, the authors report the stabilization of a smectic-A liquid crystal phase, where constituent molecules—two rigid dsDNA segments linked by a flexible ssDNA spacer—attain a folded configuratio...

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Main Authors: Miroslaw Salamonczyk, Jing Zhang, Giuseppe Portale, Chenhui Zhu, Emmanuel Kentzinger, James T. Gleeson, Antal Jakli, Cristiano De Michele, Jan K. G. Dhont, Samuel Sprunt, Emmanuel Stiakakis
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2016-11-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms13358

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