Liquid Crystalline Colloidal Mixture of Nanosheets and Rods with Dynamically Variable Length.

ABSTRACT: Here, we demonstrate the novel double-component liquid crystalline colloids composed of mesogenic inorganic nanosheets and the rods with dynamically variable length controlled by temperature. As the length-controllable rod, stiff biopolymer microtubule is used, which was successfully polymerized/depolymerized from tubulin proteins through a biochemical process even in the presence of the nanosheets. The mesoscopic structure of the liquid crystal phase was reversibly modifiable as caused by the change of the rod length.

SUBMITTER: Kato R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6289543 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature