Structural transition from helices to hemihelices.

Helices are amongst the most common structures in nature and in some cases, such as tethered plant tendrils, a more complex but related shape, the hemihelix forms. In its simplest form it consists of two helices of opposite chirality joined by a perversion. A recent, simple experiment using elastome...

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Main Authors: Jia Liu, Jiangshui Huang, Tianxiang Su, Katia Bertoldi, David R Clarke
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3997338?pdf=render