Type I collagen, a versatile liquid crystal biological template for silica structuration from nano- to microscopic scales.

Eglin, David; Mosser, Gervaise; Giraud-Guille, Marie-Madeleine; Livage, Jacques; Coradin, Thibaud · Soft Matter · 2005

basic_science · Level V

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Abstract

Type I collagen is a suitable and versatile template for the structuration of silica at different length scales.