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- Jianguo Zhao
- Quanzhou Institute of Equipment Manufacturing Haixi Institutes Chinese Academy of Sciences Quanzhou 362200 China
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- Utku Gulan
- Institute of Environmental Engineering ETH Zurich 8093 Zurich Switzerland
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- Takafumi Horie
- Department of Chemical Science and Engineering Kobe University Kobe 657‐8501 Japan
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- Naoto Ohmura
- Department of Chemical Science and Engineering Kobe University Kobe 657‐8501 Japan
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- Jun Han
- Quanzhou Institute of Equipment Manufacturing Haixi Institutes Chinese Academy of Sciences Quanzhou 362200 China
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- Chao Yang
- CAS Key Laboratory of Green Process and Engineering Institute of Process Engineering Chinese Academy of Sciences Beijing 100190 China
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- Jie Kong
- Shaanxi Key Laboratory of Macromolecular Science and Technology School of Science Northwestern Polytechnical University Xi'an 710072 China
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- Steven Wang
- School of Engineering Newcastle University Newcastle Upon Tyne NE1 7RU UK
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- Ben Bin Xu
- Mechanical and Construction Engineering Faculty of Engineering and Environment Northumbria University Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 8ST UK
書誌事項
- 公開日
- 2019-03-20
- 資源種別
- journal article
- 権利情報
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- http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/termsAndConditions#vor
- DOI
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- 10.1002/smll.201900019
- 公開者
- Wiley
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<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title><jats:p>Biological liquid crystals, a rich set of soft materials with rod‐like structures widely existing in nature, possess typical lyotropic liquid crystalline phase properties both in vitro (e.g., cellulose, peptides, and protein assemblies) and in vivo (e.g., cellular lipid membrane, packed DNA in bacteria, and aligned fibroblasts). Given the ability to undergo phase transition in response to various stimuli, numerous practices are exercised to spatially arrange biological liquid crystals. Here, a fundamental understanding of interactions between rod‐shaped biological building blocks and their orientational ordering across multiple length scales is addressed. Discussions are made with regard to the dependence of physical properties of nonmotile objects on the first‐order phase transition and the coexistence of multi‐phases in passive liquid crystalline systems. This work also focuses on how the applied physical stimuli drives the reorganization of constituent passive particles for a new steady‐state alignment. A number of recent progresses in the dynamics behaviors of active liquid crystals are presented, and particular attention is given to those self‐propelled animate elements, like the formation of motile topological defects, active turbulence, correlation of orientational ordering, and cellular functions. Finally, future implications and potential applications of the biological liquid crystalline materials are discussed.</jats:p>
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Small 15 (18), 1900019-, 2019-03-20
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