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Solvent‐Free Liquid Crystals and Liquids Based on Genetically Engineered Supercharged Polypeptides with High Elasticity
Author(s) -
Liu Kai,
Pesce Diego,
Ma Chao,
Tuchband Michael,
Shuai Min,
Chen Dong,
Su Juanjuan,
Liu Qing,
Gerasimov Jennifer Y.,
Kolbe Anke,
Zajaczkowski Wojciech,
Pisula Wojciech,
Müllen Klaus,
Clark Noel A.,
Herrmann Andreas
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
advanced materials
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 10.707
H-Index - 527
eISSN - 1521-4095
pISSN - 0935-9648
DOI - 10.1002/adma.201405182
Subject(s) - materials science , genetically engineered , elasticity (physics) , solvent , liquid crystal , chemical engineering , composite material , organic chemistry , optoelectronics , chemistry , biochemistry , gene , engineering
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.