Solvent-free liquid crystals and liquids based on genetically engineered supercharged polypeptides with high elasticity.
A series of solvent-free elastin-like polypeptide liquid crystals and liquids are developed by electrostatic complexation of supercharged elastin-like polypeptides with surfactants. The smectic mesophases exhibit a high elasticity and the values can be easily tuned by varying the alkyl chain lengths of the surfactants or the lengths of the elastin-like polypeptides.
Zernike Institute for Advanced Materials, Nijenborgh 4, 9747, AG, Groningen, The Netherlands.
Kai
K
Liu
Diego
D
Pesce
Chao
C
Ma
Michael
M
Tuchband
Min
M
Shuai
Dong
D
Chen
Juanjuan
J
Su
Qing
Q
Liu
Jennifer Y
JY
Gerasimov
Anke
A
Kolbe
Wojciech
W
Zajaczkowski
Wojciech
W
Pisula
Klaus
K
Müllen
Noel A
NA
Clark
Andreas
A
Herrmann
D004548:Elasticity; D005818:Genetic Engineering; D049452:Green Fluorescent Proteins / Q000235:genetics; D050866:Liquid Crystals / Q000737:chemistry*; D008958:Models, Molecular; D010455:Peptides / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000235:genetics*; D011487:Protein Conformation
D010455:Peptides; D049452:Green Fluorescent Proteins
high elasticity; liquid crystals; liquids; solvent-free; supercharged polypeptides