Freeze-fracture electron microscopy allows an ultrastructural analysis of deformations of a DNA cholesteric liquid crystalline sample subjected to a compressive stress applied parallel to the layers, when quickly frozen by projection onto a copper block cooled down to about 10 K. A geometrical model of these deformations is proposed. After a brief recall of the usual representation of the cholesteric structure as a succession of equidistant pseudoplanes, we show that these planes are distorted into sinusoidal surfaces whose wavelength is much smaller than the cholesteric pitch and its amplitude modulated with the average molecular orientation relative to the compressive force. The consequences of these deformations regarding double twist oc...
In aqueous solution, pure DNA forms multiple liquid crystalline and crystalline phases whose nature ...
DNA, PBLG and xanthan are three polymers which give cholesteric liquid crystalline phases in concent...
Nuclei and threads have been described in nematic and cholesteric liquid crystals showing a large he...
Freeze-fracture electron microscopy allows an ultrastructural analysis of deformations of a DNA chol...
Using in parallel electron microscopy of ultrathin frozenhydrated sections and freeze-fracture repli...
Modern rapid-freezing methods followed by freeze-fracture replication techniques are ideally suited ...
Aqueous solutions of 146-base pair DNA fragments form a cholesteric liquid crystalline phase in the ...
In aqueous concentrated solution, DNA forms cholesteric liquid crystalline phases whose textures wer...
The cholesteric liquid crystalline phases of three polymers of biological interest have been investi...
The structure of a hybrid aligned cholesteric liquid crystal sample is investigated both experimenta...
Highly concentrated solutions of helical polymers of biological interest, namely DNA and PBLG, have ...
DNA molecules form dense liquid-crystalline twisted phases both in vivo and in vitro. How the micros...
International audienceDuring the observation of glassy cholesteric liquid crystals in transmission e...
Freeze-fracture technique is a method used to visualise membrane surfaces of cell organelles. This ...
We use a nondestructive technique of fluorescence confocal polarizing microscopy to visualize three-...
In aqueous solution, pure DNA forms multiple liquid crystalline and crystalline phases whose nature ...
DNA, PBLG and xanthan are three polymers which give cholesteric liquid crystalline phases in concent...
Nuclei and threads have been described in nematic and cholesteric liquid crystals showing a large he...
Freeze-fracture electron microscopy allows an ultrastructural analysis of deformations of a DNA chol...
Using in parallel electron microscopy of ultrathin frozenhydrated sections and freeze-fracture repli...
Modern rapid-freezing methods followed by freeze-fracture replication techniques are ideally suited ...
Aqueous solutions of 146-base pair DNA fragments form a cholesteric liquid crystalline phase in the ...
In aqueous concentrated solution, DNA forms cholesteric liquid crystalline phases whose textures wer...
The cholesteric liquid crystalline phases of three polymers of biological interest have been investi...
The structure of a hybrid aligned cholesteric liquid crystal sample is investigated both experimenta...
Highly concentrated solutions of helical polymers of biological interest, namely DNA and PBLG, have ...
DNA molecules form dense liquid-crystalline twisted phases both in vivo and in vitro. How the micros...
International audienceDuring the observation of glassy cholesteric liquid crystals in transmission e...
Freeze-fracture technique is a method used to visualise membrane surfaces of cell organelles. This ...
We use a nondestructive technique of fluorescence confocal polarizing microscopy to visualize three-...
In aqueous solution, pure DNA forms multiple liquid crystalline and crystalline phases whose nature ...
DNA, PBLG and xanthan are three polymers which give cholesteric liquid crystalline phases in concent...
Nuclei and threads have been described in nematic and cholesteric liquid crystals showing a large he...