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Scattering Under Shear: Alignment of a Disordered Bicontinuous Mesophase

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 July 2011

Annela M. Seddon ,
Gudrun Lötze ,
Tomás Plivelic  and
Adam M. Squires
Annela M. Seddon
Affiliation:
H.H. Wills Physics Laboratory, Tyndall Avenue, University of Bristol, BS8 1FD, Lund, Sweden.
Gudrun Lötze
Affiliation:
Department of Chemistry, Whiteknights, University of Reading, RG6 6AH, Lund, Sweden.
Tomás Plivelic
Affiliation:
University of Lund, MAX-Lab, SE-22100, Lund, Sweden.
Adam M. Squires
Affiliation:
Department of Chemistry, Whiteknights, University of Reading, RG6 6AH, Lund, Sweden.
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Abstract

In this work we demonstrate that the application of shear to a disordered lyoptropic liquid phase formed by a biological lipid, monoolein formed in water and butanediol results in the formation of an aligned lamellar phase. Furthermore we show that if shear is applied to this disordered phase in the presence of additional water, an highly oriented inverse bicontinous cubic phase is created. We suggest that these two phase may have applications as biological models, as templates for nanostructured materials and in improved protein crystallization techniques.

Keywords

x-ray diffraction (XRD)nanostructurebiomimetic (assembly)
Type
Research Article
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MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 1355: Symposium JJ – Biological Hybrid Materials for Life Sciences , 2011 , mrss11-1355-jj09-14
Copyright
Copyright © Materials Research Society 2011

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