Nature Communications (Oct 2017)

Curvature instability of chiral colloidal membranes on crystallization

  • Lachit Saikia,
  • Tanmoy Sarkar,
  • Meera Thomas,
  • V. A. Raghunathan,
  • Anirban Sain,
  • Prerna Sharma

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-01441-3
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 7

Abstract

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Buckling and wrinkling are instabilities which involve thin elastic sheets and are well-investigated phenomena at the macroscale. Here Saikia et al. investigate curvature instabilities at the colloidal lengthscale in quasi-2D monolayers of rod-like viruses across the fluid-crystal phase transition.