Aqueous cholesteric liquid crystals using uncharged rodlike polypeptides

EG Bellomo, P Davidson, M Impéror-Clerc…

Index: Bellomo, Enrico G.; Davidson, Patrick; Imperor-Clerc, Marianne; Deming, Timothy J. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2004 , vol. 126, # 29 p. 9101 - 9105

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Abstract

The aqueous, lyotropic liquid-crystalline phase behavior of the α-helical polypeptide, poly (Nε-2-[2-(2-methoxyethoxy) ethoxy] acetyl-lysine)(1), has been studied using optical microscopy and X-ray scattering. Solutions of optically pure 1 were found to form ...