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Choi GM, Lee HS. Excluded Volume Effect on the Extensional Rheology of Carbon Nanotubes: A Mesoscopic Theory. Macromolecules 2022. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.macromol.2c01422] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- Gyeong Min Choi
- Department of Chemical Engineering (BK-21 Four Graduate Program), Dong-A University, Busan 49315, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Chemical Engineering (BK-21 Four Graduate Program), Dong-A University, Busan 49315, Republic of Korea
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Wang Z, Servio P, Rey AD. Complex Nanowrinkling in Chiral Liquid Crystal Surfaces: From Shaping Mechanisms to Geometric Statistics. NANOMATERIALS 2022; 12:nano12091555. [PMID: 35564263 PMCID: PMC9105835 DOI: 10.3390/nano12091555] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/08/2022] [Revised: 04/28/2022] [Accepted: 04/29/2022] [Indexed: 01/27/2023]
Abstract
Surface wrinkling is closely linked to a significant number of surface functionalities such as wetting, structural colour, tribology, frictions, biological growth and more. Given its ubiquity in nature’s surfaces and that most material formation processes are driven by self-assembly and self-organization and many are formed by fibrous composites or analogues of liquid crystals, in this work, we extend our previous theory and modeling work on in silico biomimicking nanowrinkling using chiral liquid crystal surface physics by including higher-order anisotropic surface tension nonlinearities. The modeling is based on a compact liquid crystal shape equation containing anisotropic capillary pressures, whose solution predicts a superposition of uniaxial, equibiaxial and biaxial egg carton surfaces with amplitudes dictated by material anchoring energy parameters and by the symmetry of the liquid crystal orientation field. The numerical solutions are validated by analytical solutions. The blending and interaction of egg carton surfaces create surface reliefs whose amplitudes depend on the highest nonlinearity and whose morphology depends on the anchoring coefficient ratio. Targeting specific wrinkling patterns is realized by selecting trajectories on an appropriate parametric space. Finally, given its importance in surface functionalities and applications, the geometric statistics of the patterns up to the fourth order are characterized and connected to the parametric anchoring energy space. We show how to minimize and/or maximize skewness and kurtosis by specific changes in the surface energy anisotropy. Taken together, this paper presents a theory and simulation platform for the design of nano-wrinkled surfaces with targeted surface roughness metrics generated by internal capillary pressures, of interest in the development of biomimetic multifunctional surfaces.
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Khadem SA, Rey AD. Nucleation and growth of cholesteric collagen tactoids: A time-series statistical analysis based on integration of direct numerical simulation (DNS) and long short-term memory recurrent neural network (LSTM-RNN). J Colloid Interface Sci 2021; 582:859-873. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jcis.2020.08.052] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/22/2020] [Revised: 07/13/2020] [Accepted: 08/13/2020] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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Khadem SA, Bagnani M, Mezzenga R, Rey AD. Relaxation dynamics in bio-colloidal cholesteric liquid crystals confined to cylindrical geometry. Nat Commun 2020; 11:4616. [PMID: 32934229 PMCID: PMC7493995 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-020-18421-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/03/2020] [Accepted: 08/12/2020] [Indexed: 12/22/2022] Open
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Para-nematic phases, induced by unwinding chiral helices, spontaneously relax to a chiral ground state through phase ordering dynamics that are of great interest and crucial for applications such as stimuli-responsive and biomimetic engineering. In this work, we characterize the cholesteric phase relaxation behaviors of β-lactoglobulin amyloid fibrils and cellulose nanocrystals confined into cylindrical capillaries, uncovering two different equilibration pathways. The integration of experimental measurements and theoretical predictions reveals the starkly distinct underlying mechanism behind the relaxation dynamics of β-lactoglobulin amyloid fibrils, characterized by slow equilibration achieved through consecutive sigmoidal-like steps, and of cellulose nanocrystals, characterized by fast equilibration obtained through smooth relaxation dynamics. Particularly, the specific relaxation behaviors are shown to emerge from the order parameter of the unwound cholesteric medium, which depends on chirality and elasticity. The experimental findings are supported by direct numerical simulations, allowing to establish hard-to-measure viscoelastic properties without applying magnetic or electric fields.
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- Sayyed Ahmad Khadem
- Department of Chemical Engineering, McGill University, Montreal, QC, H3A 2B2, Canada
- Quebec Centre for Advanced Materials, Canada (QCAM/CQMF), Montreal, QC, H3A 2K6, Canada
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- Department of Health Sciences and Technology, ETH Zurich, Schmelzbergstrasse 9, Zurich, 8092, Switzerland
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- Department of Health Sciences and Technology, ETH Zurich, Schmelzbergstrasse 9, Zurich, 8092, Switzerland
- Department of Materials, ETH Zurich, Wolfgang-Pauli-Strasse 10, Zurich, 8093, Switzerland
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, McGill University, Montreal, QC, H3A 2B2, Canada.
- Quebec Centre for Advanced Materials, Canada (QCAM/CQMF), Montreal, QC, H3A 2K6, Canada.
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Rolland N, Mehandzhiyski AY, Garg M, Linares M, Zozoulenko IV. New Patchy Particle Model with Anisotropic Patches for Molecular Dynamics Simulations: Application to a Coarse-Grained Model of Cellulose Nanocrystal. J Chem Theory Comput 2020; 16:3699-3711. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.jctc.0c00259] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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- Nicolas Rolland
- Laboratory of Organic Electronics, ITN, Linköping University, SE-601 74 Norrköping, Sweden
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- Laboratory of Organic Electronics, ITN, Linköping University, SE-601 74 Norrköping, Sweden
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- Laboratory of Organic Electronics, ITN, Linköping University, SE-601 74 Norrköping, Sweden
- Scientific Visualization Group, ITN, Linköping University, SE-601 74 Norrköping, Sweden
- Swedish e-Science Research Centre (SeRC), Linköping University, SE-581 83 Linköping, Sweden
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- Laboratory of Organic Electronics, ITN, Linköping University, SE-601 74 Norrköping, Sweden
- Wallenberg Wood Science Center, Linköping University, SE-601 74 Norrköping, Sweden
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Ma C, Su J, Li B, Herrmann A, Zhang H, Liu K. Solvent-Free Plasticity and Programmable Mechanical Behaviors of Engineered Proteins. ADVANCED MATERIALS (DEERFIELD BEACH, FLA.) 2020; 32:e1907697. [PMID: 31990428 DOI: 10.1002/adma.201907697] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/23/2019] [Revised: 12/16/2019] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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Biopolymeric networks with plasticity show great competences in diverse fields owing to the combined biocompatible and mechanical characteristics. However, to realize such plasticity external complicated treatments, e.g., UV or organic solvent have to be applied, which in turn impair the biological nature and even mechanical properties of those systems. To address this challenge, one new type of anhydrous protein liquid crystalline (LC) gels, which exhibit flexible morphological plasticity and mechanical programmability is demonstrated. Supramolecular interactions in the smectic biogels play an important role for their high plasticity. Remarkably, the samples exhibit outstanding mechanical behaviors. The tensile strength and Young's modulus at MPa levels are comparable or even higher than chemically cross-linked hydrogels and LC elastomers. More importantly, mechanical programmability of the LC gels is achieved by genetically tuning the charge density of protein backbones. Consequently, the mechanical performance is manipulated in the range of one order of magnitude. Thus, this type of anhydrous protein LC gels offers great opportunities for load-bearing high-tech applications.
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- Chao Ma
- State Key Laboratory of Rare Earth Resource Utilization, Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 130022, Changchun, China
- Zernike Institute for Advanced Materials, Nijenborgh 4, 9747 AG, Groningen, The Netherlands
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- Genetics and Aging Research Unit, McCance Center for Brain Health, MassGeneral Institute for Neurodegenerative Disease, Department of Neurology, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Charlestown, MA, 02129, USA
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- State Key Laboratory of Rare Earth Resource Utilization, Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 130022, Changchun, China
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- DWI-Leibniz Institute for Interactive Materials, Forckenbeckstr. 50, 52056, Aachen, Germany
- Institute of Technical and Macromolecular Chemistry, RWTH Aachen University, Worringerweg 2, 52074, Aachen, Germany
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- State Key Laboratory of Rare Earth Resource Utilization, Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 130022, Changchun, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Rare Earth Resource Utilization, Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 130022, Changchun, China
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Chen J, Yang Y, Wu J, Rui X, Wang W, Ren R, Zhang Q, Chen Q, Yin D. Spatiotemporal variations of contact stress between liquid-crystal films and fibroblasts Guide cell fate and skin regeneration. Colloids Surf B Biointerfaces 2019; 188:110745. [PMID: 31881410 DOI: 10.1016/j.colsurfb.2019.110745] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/13/2019] [Revised: 12/16/2019] [Accepted: 12/18/2019] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
Abstract
The inductions of both the mechanical microenvironment on cell behaviour and the polymeric scaffold on tissue regeneration have been well-proved. This study is aimed to investigate the possibility of guiding cell fate and tissue regeneration by the spatiotemporal controlling of contact stress between matrix materials and cells and to elucidate the mechanisms underlying. A series liquid crystal polymers of cholesteryl-oligo(lactic acid) (CLA) and an amorphous polymer of poly(lactic acid) were used as the growth substrates for fibroblast and skin tissue regeneration. The cellular and animal experiments show that, in the initial stage of wound healing, the liquid crystal texture of CLA films can provide an induced stress for the formation of focal adhesions and the activation of integrin β1/AKT signal pathway, resulting in advanced phenotypic transformation of fibroblasts to myofibroblasts, promoted collagen secretion and fast wound filling. But the gradually weakening cellular contact stress, induced by the decreasing of liquid crystal domains of matrix polymer during degradation, triggers the apoptosis of fibroblasts and myofibroblasts, resulting in non-excessive collagen accumulation. Finally, the CLA groups exhibit no obvious scar formation, more regular cell arrangement and significantly lower type I collagen proportion in regenerated tissue than other groups. This study may inspire a new, effective and safe strategy for tissue regeneration.
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- Jing Chen
- College of Pharmacy, Anhui University of Chinese Medicine, 1 Qianjiang Road, Hefei, Anhui, 230031, China
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- College of Pharmacy, Anhui University of Chinese Medicine, 1 Qianjiang Road, Hefei, Anhui, 230031, China; Anhui Provincial Key Laboratory for Chinese Herbal Compound, 1 Qianjiang Road, Hefei, Anhui, 230031, China.
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- College of Pharmacy, Anhui University of Chinese Medicine, 1 Qianjiang Road, Hefei, Anhui, 230031, China
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- College of Pharmacy, Anhui University of Chinese Medicine, 1 Qianjiang Road, Hefei, Anhui, 230031, China
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- College of Pharmacy, Anhui University of Chinese Medicine, 1 Qianjiang Road, Hefei, Anhui, 230031, China
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- College of Pharmacy, Anhui University of Chinese Medicine, 1 Qianjiang Road, Hefei, Anhui, 230031, China
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- College of Pharmacy, Anhui University of Chinese Medicine, 1 Qianjiang Road, Hefei, Anhui, 230031, China
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- College of Pharmacy, Anhui University of Chinese Medicine, 1 Qianjiang Road, Hefei, Anhui, 230031, China
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- College of Pharmacy, Anhui University of Chinese Medicine, 1 Qianjiang Road, Hefei, Anhui, 230031, China; Institute of Pharmaceutics, Anhui Academy of Chinese Medicine, 1 Qianjiang Road, Hefei, Anhui, 230031, China.
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Mirzaeifard S, Servio P, Rey AD. Characterization of nucleation of methane hydrate crystals: Interfacial theory and molecular simulation. J Colloid Interface Sci 2019; 557:556-567. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jcis.2019.09.056] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/04/2019] [Revised: 09/06/2019] [Accepted: 09/17/2019] [Indexed: 01/18/2023]
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Matus Rivas OM, Rey AD. Molecular Dynamics Study of the Effect of l-Alanine Chiral Dopants on Diluted Chromonic Solutions. J Phys Chem B 2019; 123:8995-9010. [PMID: 31525883 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.9b06111] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Atomistic molecular dynamics simulations have been performed for disodium cromoglycate (DSCG) chromonic solutions mixed with l-alanine chiral dopants. We study the fundamental molecular mechanisms induced by low concentrations of l-alanine on diluted DSCG solutions, including their effect on the chromonic aggregates, the solvent, and sodium counterions. Simulations reveal that l-alanine molecules primarily interact with DSCG stacks establishing salt bridges between their respective ammonium and carboxylate groups. Our results demonstrate that l-alanine and sodium counterions jointly establish an intricate network of noncovalent interactions around DSCG aggregates that decreases the global electrostatic repulsion of the chromonic system. Two possible structural effects in DSCG aggregates arise from this electronic stabilization: the increment of the total number of consecutively stacked aromatic planes per DSCG aggregate (intracolumnar effect) or the partial separation reduction between neighboring DSCG columnar sections due to the simultaneous bridging of intercolumnar DSCG carboxylate sites by sodium counterions, forming sodium bridges (intercolumnar effect). Sodium bridges may be responsible for the formation of stacking faults in DSCG aggregates in the form of lateral overlap junctions. This mechanism would explain the difference between lower X-ray correlation lengths with the expected persistence length in chromonics.
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- Oscar M Matus Rivas
- Department of Chemical Engineering , McGill University , Montreal , Quebec H3A 0C5 , Canada
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- Department of Chemical Engineering , McGill University , Montreal , Quebec H3A 0C5 , Canada
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