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Protein‐dispersed liquid crystals
Author(s) -
Hermel H.,
Seeboth A.
Publication year - 1992
Publication title -
journal of applied polymer science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.575
H-Index - 166
eISSN - 1097-4628
pISSN - 0021-8995
DOI - 10.1002/app.1992.070460114
Subject(s) - gelatin , liquid crystal , materials science , molecule , phase (matter) , supramolecular chemistry , triple helix , crystallography , orientation (vector space) , chemical engineering , chemistry , stereochemistry , organic chemistry , optoelectronics , geometry , mathematics , engineering
Nematic liquid crystals (LC) were embedded in a highly structured gelatin film as the discrete phase in the form of droplets. Thereby, the gelatin matrix forces a preferred orientation of the LC molecules in the droplets, initiated by the interaction between the triple helices of gelatin and the LC at the interface protein/LC. This is explained on a molecular level by the formation of a supramolecular structure at the interface, which is a germ for the continued preferred orientation of the mesogenes inside the droplets.
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