The layered biological system carrying the life activity has a similar structure to the smectic-A lyotropic liquid crystalline phase. Some of nucleic acid is known to exhibiting the lyotropic liquid crystal phase under a certain condition. On the other hand, some biological multilayer attracts the researchers interests as the medical applications. Some amphiphilic molecules exhibits the lyotropic phase, which is now one of the current topics because of their fascinating phenomena.
As we know, the lyotropic liquid crystals fascinate not only the liquid crystal specialist but also the biologist, physicist, chemist, engineer and pharmacist. From the biological point of view, in this forum we would like to discuss about the liquid crystal freely.
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| lyotropic phase, discotic liquid crystal, monolayer, bilayer, Langmuir-Blodgett (LB) film, biotechnology, biological layer, condensed matter, complex fluid, self-assembled monolayer |