Nanofibers and Lyotropic Liquid Crystals from a Class of Self-Assembling beta-Peptides

摘要

Lyotropic liquid-crystalline (LC) phases,in other words,LC phases induced by the presence of a solvent,form through the assembly of large anisometric particles,such as rigid polymers,viruses,or inorganic rods,as a result of excluded volume interactions (Onsager theory).Small molecules can form lyotropic LC phases if they undergo self-assembly to generate anisometric nanostructures.