Smectic ordering in solutions and films of a rod-like polymer owing to monodispersity of chain length

Nature

Volumn 389, Issue 6647, 1997, Pages 167-170

  Yu, Seungju M ^a   Conticello, Vincent P ^a,b   Zhang, Guanghui ^a,c   Kayser, Christoph ^a,d   Fournier, Maurille J ^a   Mason, Thomas L ^a   Tirrell, David A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c United States Surgical Corporation   (United States)

^d MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR POLYMER RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISPERSIONS; FILMS; MOLECULAR ORIENTATION; SMECTIC LIQUID CRYSTALS; SOLUTIONS;

MONODISPERSITY; POLYBENZYL GLUTAMATE; ROD LIKE POLYMER; SMECTIC PHASES;

AROMATIC POLYMERS;

NANOPARTICLE; POLYGLUTAMIC ACID; POLYMER;

ARTICLE; DISPERSION; FILM; GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; MACROMOLECULE; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; PHYSICAL PHASE; POLARIZATION MICROSCOPY; POLYMERIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS;

BIOFILMS; BIOPOLYMERS; CHLOROFORM; DIOXANES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; POLYGLUTAMIC ACID; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; SOLUTIONS; TRIFLUOROACETIC ACID; X-RAY DIFFRACTION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 0031238754     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/38254     Document Type: Article

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