Spacer length controlled oblique-columnar to lamello-columnar mesophase transition in liquid crystalline DNA - Discotic cationic lipid complexes

Macromolecules

Volumn 39, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 2536-2545

  Cui, Li ^a   Miao, Jianjun ^a   Zhu, Lei ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MESOPHASE TRANSITION; MOLECULAR COMPOSITION; TRIPHENYLENE IMIDAZOLIUM;

COMPOSITION; DNA; FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; LIPIDS; MORPHOLOGY; PHASE TRANSITIONS; SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL); TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

LIQUID CRYSTAL POLYMERS;

EID: 33645966818     PISSN: 00249297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ma060001x     Document Type: Article

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