What Is the Origin of Chirality in the Cholesteric Phase of Virus Suspensions?

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 90, Issue 19, 2003, Pages 4-

  Grelet, Eric ^a   Fraden, Seth ^a  

^a BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS; CHOLESTERIC LIQUID CRYSTALS; COATING TECHNIQUES; COLLOIDS; IONIC STRENGTH; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS; PHASE DIAGRAMS; PHASE TRANSITIONS; POLYETHYLENE GLYCOLS; REFRACTIVE INDEX;

CHIRAL INTERACTIONS; CHIRALITY; COLLOIDAL LIQUID CRYSTALS; NEMATIC ORDER PARAMETER; VIRUS SUSPENSIONS;

SUSPENSIONS (FLUIDS);

COLLOID; MACROGOL DERIVATIVE; VIRUS DNA;

CHEMISTRY; COLLOID; CRYSTALLIZATION; ENTEROBACTERIA PHAGE M13; OSMOLARITY; STEREOISOMERISM;

BACTERIOPHAGE M13; COLLOIDS; CRYSTALLIZATION; DNA, VIRAL; OSMOLAR CONCENTRATION; POLYETHYLENE GLYCOLS; STEREOISOMERISM;

EID: 0043210848     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.90.198302     Document Type: Article

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