Super-swelled lyotropic single crystals

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

Volumn 114, Issue 41, 2017, Pages 10834-10839

  Kim, Hojun ^a   Song, Ziyuan ^a   Leal, Cecilia ^a,b  

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

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

Author keywords

Bicontinuous cubic; Lipid membranes; Lyotropic liquid crystals; Molecular single crystals; Soft materials self assembly

Indexed keywords

CHLOROFORM; GLYCOL; LIPID; ORGANIC SOLVENT; POLYETHYLENE; WATER;

ARTICLE; CELL SIZE; CRYOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; CRYSTAL; EVAPORATION; LIPID BILAYER; LIPID COMPOSITION; LIPID MEMBRANE; LIQUID CRYSTAL; PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; SURFACE PROPERTY; WATER CONTENT; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; CHEMISTRY; CRYSTALLIZATION; PROCEDURES;

CRYSTALLIZATION; LIPIDS; LIQUID CRYSTALS;

EID: 85030760735     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1710774114     Document Type: Article

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