Possible transient liquid crystal phase during the laying out of connective tissues: α-chitin and collagen as models

Emmanuel Belamie (1, 2, 3) , Gervaise Mosser (1) , Frédéric Gobeaux (1) , Marie-Madeleine Giraud-Guille (1, 3)

1 LCMCP (site Paris VI) - Laboratoire de Chimie de la Matière Condensée de Paris (site Paris VI)
2 ICGM ICMMM - Institut Charles Gerhardt Montpellier - Institut de Chimie Moléculaire et des Matériaux de Montpellier
3 Matériaux du vivant et vectorisation -Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes

Domaines: Matière Molle [cond-mat.soft]

Emmanuel Belamie, Gervaise Mosser, Frédéric Gobeaux, Marie-Madeleine Giraud-Guille. Possible transient liquid crystal phase during the laying out of connective tissues: α-chitin and collagen as models. Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, 2007, 19, pp.4349-4356. ⟨10.1088/0953-8984/18/13/S08⟩. ⟨hal-00184189⟩