Myelin structures formed by thermotropic smectic liquid crystals

Langmuir

Volumn 29, Issue 50, 2013, Pages 15682-15688

  Peddireddy, Karthik ^a,b   Kumar, Pramoda ^a   Thutupalli, Shashi ^a,c   Herminghaus, Stephan ^a   Bahr, Christian ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR DYNAMICS AND SELF ORGANIZATION   (Germany)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONFOCAL FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; GROWTH BEHAVIOR; LYOTROPIC LAMELLAR; MYELIN FIGURES; POLARIZING MICROSCOPY; SMECTIC LAYERS; SMECTIC-A LIQUID CRYSTALS; TRANSIENT STRUCTURE;

CATIONIC SURFACTANTS; CRITICAL MICELLE CONCENTRATION; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; SURFACE DEFECTS; TUBES (COMPONENTS);

SMECTIC LIQUID CRYSTALS;

EID: 84890715162     PISSN: 07437463     EISSN: 15205827     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/la4038588     Document Type: Article

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