Curvature instability of chiral colloidal membranes on crystallization
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.
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Nature Portfolio
2017-10-01
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| Series: | Nature Communications |
| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-01441-3 |