Solvent-Free Liquid Crystals and Liquids Based on Genetically Engineered Supercharged Polypeptides with High Elasticity

Kai Liu, Diego Pesce, Chao Ma, Michael Tuchband, Min Shuai, Dong Chen, Juanjuan Su, Qing Liu, Jennifer Yevgenia Gerasimov, Anke Kolbe, Wojciech Zajaczkowski, Wojciech Pisula, Klaus Müllen, Noel Clark, Andreas Herrmann

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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.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)2459-2465
Number of pages7
JournalAdvanced materials
Volume27
Issue number15
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 17-Apr-2015

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