title: Hierarchy of Order in Liquid Crystalline Polycaps.
abstract: When outfitted with long alkyl chains, polycaps, capsules along a polymer chain, spontaneously organize themselves into a two-dimensional liquid crystalline phase. Further organization results from shearing or pulling the liquid crystalline samples, producing three-dimensional assemblies of micrometer-wide, infinitely long fibers (see schematic representation).
authors.affiliation: The Skaggs Institute for Chemical Biology, and the Department of Chemistry, The Scripps Research Institute, 10550 North Torrey Pines Road MB-26, La Jolla, CA 92037 (USA).
authors.initials: RK
authors.lastname: Castellano
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Nuckolls
authors.initials: SH
authors.lastname: Eichhorn
authors.initials: MR
authors.lastname: Wood
authors.initials: AJ
authors.lastname: Lovinger
authors.lastname: Rebek Jr