The cholesteric liquid crystalline phases of three polymers of biological interest have been investigated: PBLG (a polypeptide), DNA (a polynucleotide) and xanthan (a polysaccharide). The textures (and the defects which they contain) of these three mesophases are analysed and compared The main difference concerns focal lines which apparently do not occur in PBLG, are rare in DNA but occur frequently in xanthan. The frequency of occurrence of the different types of rotation and translation dislocations were measured : - π disclinations are always of the λ- type and + π disclinations are mainly λ +. Among polymers, differences exist in the distribution of translation dislocations but in these three cases, when only one layer is added, the def...
Phase structures and transformation mechanisms of nonracemic chiral biological and synthetic polymer...
Smectic ordering has been observed in perfectly monodisperse poly(γ-benzyl α,L-glutamate) (PBLG) whi...
International audienceWe describe the new type of liquid-crystalline state which is stabilized in co...
Highly concentrated solutions of helical polymers of biological interest, namely DNA and PBLG, have ...
DNA, PBLG and xanthan are three polymers which give cholesteric liquid crystalline phases in concent...
In aqueous concentrated solution, DNA forms cholesteric liquid crystalline phases whose textures wer...
Beaucoup de matériels biologiques sont des analogues polymérisés des cristaux liquides cholestérique...
Aqueous solutions of 146-base pair DNA fragments form a cholesteric liquid crystalline phase in the ...
Germs of cholesteric liquids were studied in classical mixtures of nematic compounds (MBBA, PAA) wit...
Freeze-fracture electron microscopy allows an ultrastructural analysis of deformations of a DNA chol...
This review discusses liquid crystal phase formation by biopolymers in solution. Lyotropic mesophase...
The liquid crystalline (LC) properties of two supercoiled plasmid DNA samples, pBSK (2958 bp) and pG...
In aqueous solution, pure DNA forms multiple liquid crystalline and crystalline phases whose nature ...
This review discusses liquid crystal phase formation by biopolymers in solution. Lyotropic mesophase...
Phase structures and transformation mechanisms of nonracemic chiral biological and synthetic polymer...
Phase structures and transformation mechanisms of nonracemic chiral biological and synthetic polymer...
Smectic ordering has been observed in perfectly monodisperse poly(γ-benzyl α,L-glutamate) (PBLG) whi...
International audienceWe describe the new type of liquid-crystalline state which is stabilized in co...
Highly concentrated solutions of helical polymers of biological interest, namely DNA and PBLG, have ...
DNA, PBLG and xanthan are three polymers which give cholesteric liquid crystalline phases in concent...
In aqueous concentrated solution, DNA forms cholesteric liquid crystalline phases whose textures wer...
Beaucoup de matériels biologiques sont des analogues polymérisés des cristaux liquides cholestérique...
Aqueous solutions of 146-base pair DNA fragments form a cholesteric liquid crystalline phase in the ...
Germs of cholesteric liquids were studied in classical mixtures of nematic compounds (MBBA, PAA) wit...
Freeze-fracture electron microscopy allows an ultrastructural analysis of deformations of a DNA chol...
This review discusses liquid crystal phase formation by biopolymers in solution. Lyotropic mesophase...
The liquid crystalline (LC) properties of two supercoiled plasmid DNA samples, pBSK (2958 bp) and pG...
In aqueous solution, pure DNA forms multiple liquid crystalline and crystalline phases whose nature ...
This review discusses liquid crystal phase formation by biopolymers in solution. Lyotropic mesophase...
Phase structures and transformation mechanisms of nonracemic chiral biological and synthetic polymer...
Phase structures and transformation mechanisms of nonracemic chiral biological and synthetic polymer...
Smectic ordering has been observed in perfectly monodisperse poly(γ-benzyl α,L-glutamate) (PBLG) whi...
International audienceWe describe the new type of liquid-crystalline state which is stabilized in co...