Cholesteric Tactoids with Tunable Helical Pitch Assembled by Lysozyme Amyloid Fibrils
Chao Wu,
Massimo Bagnani,
Tonghui Jin
et al.
Abstract:Amyloid fibrils are biological rod‐like particles showing liquid–liquid crystalline phase separation into cholesteric phases through a complex behavior of nucleation, growth, and order‐order transitions. Yet, controlling the self‐assembly of amyloids into liquid crystals, and particularly the resulting helical periodicity, remains challenging. Here, a novel cholesteric system is introduced and characterized based on hen egg white lysozyme (HEWL) amyloid fibrils and the results rationalized via a combination of… Show more
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