Self-organized gels in DNA/F-actin mixtures without crosslinkers: Networks of induced nematic domains with tunable density

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 101, Issue 21, 2008, Pages

  Lai, Ghee Hwee ^a   Butler, John C ^a   Zribi, Olena V ^a   Smalyukh, Ivan I ^a,b   Angelini, Thomas E ^a,c   Purdy, Kirstin R ^a   Golestanian, Ramin ^d   Wong, Gerard C L ^a  

^a University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLLOIDS; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; DNA; GELATION; GENES; MICROSCOPIC EXAMINATION; ORGANIC ACIDS;

ADDED SALTS; COUNTERION; CROSS LINKERS; DNA CONCENTRATIONS; DO-MAINS; FLEXIBLE CHAINS; MODEL SYSTEMS; NEMATIC STATES; OSMOTIC PRESSURES; RIGID RODS; SYSTEM CHANGES;

NUCLEIC ACIDS;

EID: 56849110875     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.101.218303     Document Type: Article

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