Cholesteric liquid crystals in living matter

M Mitov - Soft matter, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
Liquid crystals play an important role in biology because the combination of order and
mobility is a basic requirement for self-organisation and structure formation in living systems …

The contribution of intact structure and food processing to functionality of plant cell wall-derived dietary fiber

X Hu, G Zhang, BR Hamaker, M Miao - Food Hydrocolloids, 2022 - Elsevier
Plant cell wall-derived dietary fiber (PCWDF) is not only complex in chemical compositions
and physical structures, but also co-exists with many other intracellular food components in …

Perspective: Geometrically frustrated assemblies

GM Grason - The Journal of Chemical Physics, 2016 - pubs.aip.org
This perspective will overview an emerging paradigm for self-organized soft materials,
geometrically frustrated assemblies, where interactions between self-assembling elements …

Primary cell wall modifying proteins regulate wall mechanics to steer plant morphogenesis

D Qiu, S Xu, Y Wang, M Zhou, L Hong - Frontiers in Plant Science, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Plant morphogenesis involves multiple biochemical and physical processes inside the cell
wall. With the continuous progress in biomechanics field, extensive studies have elucidated …

Chiral and achiral mechanisms of self-limiting assembly of twisted bundles

GM Grason - Soft Matter, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
A generalized theory of the self-limiting assembly of twisted bundles of filaments and
columns is presented. Bundles and fibers form in a broad variety of supramolecular systems …

Pattern formation, structure and functionalities of wrinkled liquid crystal surfaces: A soft matter biomimicry platform

Z Wang, P Servio, AD Rey - Frontiers in Soft Matter, 2023 - frontiersin.org
This review presents an integrated theoretical and computational characterization and
analysis of surface pattern formation in chiral and achiral liquid crystal self-assembly and the …

Self-assembly fundamentals in the reconstruction of lignocellulosic materials: A review

MA Hubbe, R Trovagunta, F Zambrano, P Tiller… - …, 2023 - search.proquest.com
This review article considers processes by which the main components of wood have been
reported to arrange themselves into various kinds of organized structures, at least to a partial …

Mechanical basis for fibrillar bundle morphology

TCT Michaels, E Memet, L Mahadevan - Soft Matter, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Understanding the morphology of self-assembled fibrillar bundles and aggregates is
relevant to a range of problems in molecular biology, supramolecular chemistry and …

Structure and Pattern Formation in Biological Liquid Crystals: Insights From Theory and Simulation of Self-Assembly and Self-Organization

Z Wang, P Servio, AD Rey - Frontiers in Soft Matter, 2022 - frontiersin.org
This review presents theory and simulation of liquid crystal phase ordering in biological
fibrous materials, solutions, and composites in the presence of elastic fields, second phase …

Surface anchoring effects on the formation of two-wavelength surface patterns in chiral liquid crystals

Z Wang, P Rofouie, AD Rey - Crystals, 2019 - mdpi.com
We present a theoretical analysis and linear scaling of two-wavelength surface
nanostructures formed at the free surface of cholesteric liquid crystals (CLC). An anchoring …