Nature Communications (Oct 2020)

Flow-induced order–order transitions in amyloid fibril liquid crystalline tactoids

  • Hamed Almohammadi,
  • Massimo Bagnani,
  • Raffaele Mezzenga

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-19213-x
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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Tactoids are liquid crystal droplets with nearly vanishing interfacial tension. Almohammadi et al. show using a microfluidic focusing device how to manipulate them gently enough to facilitate the study of amyloid liquid crystal phase transitions subject to non-equilibirum forcing and shape changes.