Morphology of nematic and smectic vesicles

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 109, Issue 14, 2012, Pages 5202-5206

  Xing, Xiangjun ^a   Shin, Homin ^b,e   Bowick, Mark J ^c   Yao, Zhenwei ^c   Jia, Lin ^d   Li, Min Hui ^d  

^a SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^c SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d CNRS   (France)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Amphiphilic block copolymers; Bending energy; Frank free energy; Liquid crystalline polymers; Self assembled bilayer

Indexed keywords

AMPHOPHILE; COPOLYMER; NANOCARRIER; POLYMER;

ARTICLE; ENERGY; LIQUID CRYSTAL; MEMBRANE STRUCTURE; MEMBRANE VESICLE; MODEL; MORPHOLOGY; NANOTECHNOLOGY; NEMATIC VESICLE; POLYMERIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMECTIC VESICLE;

EID: 84859448320     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1115684109     Document Type: Article

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