Solvent-free liquid crystals and liquids based on genetically engineered supercharged polypeptides with high elasticity.
basic_science · Level V
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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.
Medical subject headings
- Elasticity
- Genetic Engineering
- Liquid Crystals
- Peptides