Structure and dynamics of biological liquid crystals

Liquid Crystals

Volumn 41, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 430-451

  Rey, Alejandro D ^a   Herrera Valencia, E E ^a   Murugesan, Yogesh Kumar ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

biological liquid crystals; biological polymer processing; mesophases; rheology; self assembly

Indexed keywords

EID: 84897673518     PISSN: 02678292     EISSN: 13665855     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02678292.2013.845698     Document Type: Article

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