A twist grain boundary-like twisted smectic phase in monodisperse poly(γ-benzyl α,L-glutamate) produced by recombinant DNA techniques

Macromolecules

Volumn 31, Issue 26, 1998, Pages 9387-9389

  He, Shi Juang ^a   Lee, Chin ^a   Gido, Samuel P ^a   Yu, Seungju M ^a   Tirrell, David A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^b California Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTAL ORIENTATION; DISLOCATIONS (CRYSTALS); ELECTRON DIFFRACTION; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GRAIN BOUNDARIES; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; MORPHOLOGY; SMECTIC LIQUID CRYSTALS; SURFACE TOPOGRAPHY; SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL); TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

POLYBENZYL GLUTAMATE;

MACROMOLECULES;

EID: 0032314169     PISSN: 00249297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ma981286j     Document Type: Article

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