Liquid crystals play an important role in biology because the combination of order and
mobility is a basic requirement for self-organisation and structure formation in living systems …

The very chemical structure of DNA that enables biological heredity and evolution has non‐
trivial implications for the self‐organization of DNA molecules into larger assemblies and …

Chirality is ubiquitous in nature and plays crucial roles in biology, medicine, physics and
materials science. Understanding and controlling chirality is therefore an important research …

Amyloid fibrils offer the possibility of controlling their contour length, aspect ratio, and length
distribution, without affecting other structural parameters. Here we show that a fine control in …

The helical organization of cholesteric liquid crystals is omnipresent in living matter.
Achieving control over the structure of the cholesteric helix consequently holds great …

Concentrated solutions of short blunt-ended DNA duplexes, as short as 6 base pairs, are
known to order into the nematic liquid crystal phases. This self-assembly is due to the …

Short blunt-ended DNA duplexes comprising 6 to 20 base pairs self-assemble into
polydisperse semi-flexible chains due to hydrophobic stacking interactions between terminal …

Highlights•We discuss nanocellulose, amyloid fibrils, filamentous viruses.•For each class the
main chemical composition is reviewed.•We discuss the structure and mesoscopic …

Unveiling the subtle rules that control the buildup of macroscopic chirality starting from chiral
molecular elements is a challenge for theory and computations. In this context, a remarkable …

Using an Onsager-like theory, we have investigated the relationship between the
morphology of hard helical particles and the features (pitch and handedness) of the …