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Solvent-free liquid crystals and liquids based on genetically engineered supercharged polypeptides with high
Kai Liu1, Diego Pesce, Chao Ma
1Zernike Institute for Advanced Materials, Nijenborgh 4, 9747, AG, Groningen, The Netherlands.
Advanced Materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.)
|March 4, 2015
Abstract:
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.

