Alignment of the columnar liquid crystal phase of nano-DNA by confinement in channels

Liquid Crystals

Volumn 39, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 571-577

  Yoon, Dong Ki ^a,b   Smith, Gregory P ^a   Tsai, Ethan ^a   Moran, Mark ^a   Walba, David M ^a   Bellini, Tommaso ^c   Smalyukh, Ivan I ^a   Clark, Noel A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)   (South Korea)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

columnar phase; DNA; liquid crystal; topographic confinement

Indexed keywords

EID: 84860109385     PISSN: 02678292     EISSN: 13665855     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02678292.2012.666809     Document Type: Article

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