Structure of lipid bilayers

JF Nagle, S Tristram-Nagle - Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA)-Reviews …, 2000‏ - Elsevier
The quantitative experimental uncertainty in the structure of fully hydrated, biologically
relevant, fluid (Lα) phase lipid bilayers has been too large to provide a firm base for …

Current topics in smectic liquid crystal research

JPF Lagerwall, F Giesselmann - ChemPhysChem, 2006‏ - Wiley Online Library
Interest in the smectic liquid‐crystalline state of matter received a substantial boost with the
discovery by Meyer in the mid‐1970s that a chiral smectic C (SmC*) phase exhibits a …

Graphene chiral liquid crystals and macroscopic assembled fibres

Z Xu, C Gao - Nature communications, 2011‏ - nature.com
Chirality and liquid crystals are both widely expressed in nature and biology. Helical
assembly of mesophasic molecules and colloids may produce intriguing chiral liquid …

Chiral heliconical ground state of nanoscale pitch in a nematic liquid crystal of achiral molecular dimers

D Chen, JH Porada, JB Hooper, A Klittnick… - Proceedings of the …, 2013‏ - pnas.org
Freeze-fracture transmission electron microscopy study of the nanoscale structure of the so-
called “twist–bend” nematic phase of the cyanobiphenyl (CB) dimer molecule CB (CH2) 7CB …

[كتاب][B] Critical phenomena in liquids and liquid crystals

MA Anisimov - 1991‏ - books.google.com
Phase transitions and critical phenomena in liquids and liquid crystals have been the
subject of intensive research since the 1960s. However, books on this fascinating subject …

Surface effects and anchoring in liquid crystals

B Jerome - Reports on progress in physics, 1991‏ - iopscience.iop.org
As their name indicates, liquid crystals simultaneously exhibit some characteristics common
to both ordinary isotropic liquids and solid crystals. This ambivalence is also found in the …

[كتاب][B] Liquid crystals: fundamentals

S Singh - 2002‏ - books.google.com
Liquid crystals are partially ordered systems without a rigid, long-range structure. The study
of these materials covers a wide area: chemical structure, physical properties and technical …

[كتاب][B] Thermotropic liquid crystals, fundamentals

G Vertogen, WH De Jeu - 2012‏ - books.google.com
The aim of this book is to give a unified and critical account of the fundamental aspects of
liquid crystals. Preference is given to discussing the assumptions made in develo** …

Lipid bilayers: thermodynamics, structure, fluctuations, and interactions

S Tristram-Nagle, JF Nagle - Chemistry and physics of lipids, 2004‏ - Elsevier
This article, adapted from our acceptance speech of the Avanti Award in Lipids at the 47th
Biophysical Society meeting in San Antonio, 2003, summarizes over 30 years of research in …

Steric interactions in a model multimembrane system: a synchrotron X-ray study

CR Safinya, D Roux, GS Smith, SK Sinha, P Dimon… - Physical review …, 1986‏ - APS
We report a high-resolution x-ray study of a model multilayer fluid membrane system in the
lyotropic L α phase of a quaternary microemulsion system. The structure factor exhibits …