Materials ScienceChemistryMedicine

J. Revol, H. Bradford, J. Giasson, R. Marchessault, D. Gray

1992.6.1International Journal of Biological Macromolecules

DOI: 10.1016/s0141-8130(05)80008-x

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An in vitro system that attracts by its simplicity, where above a critical concentration the colloidal dispersion separates spontaneously into a chiral nematic liquid crystalline phase and solidifies into regularly twisted fibrillar layers that mimic the structural organization of helicoids in nature.

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REVOL, J., et al. Helicoidal self-ordering of cellulose microfibrils in aqueous suspension. International Journal of Biological Macromolecules, 1992, 14 3: 170–2.