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vol. 110 no. 40 15931-15936

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https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1314654110

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Published in issue October 1, 2013.
Published first September 4, 2013.

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Dong Chen^a,
Jan H. Porada^b,
Justin B. Hooper^c,^d,
Arthur Klittnick^a,
Yongqiang Shen^a,
Michael R. Tuchband^a,
Eva Korblova^b,
Dmitry Bedrov^c,^d,
David M. Walba^b,
Matthew A. Glaser^a,
Joseph E. Maclennan^a, and
Noel A. Clark^a,¹

^aDepartment of Physics and Liquid Crystal Materials Research Center, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO 80309-0390;
^bDepartment of Chemistry and Biochemistry and Liquid Crystal Materials Research Center, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO 80309-0215;
^cDepartment of Materials Science and Engineering, The University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84112; and
^dLiquid Crystal Materials Research Center, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO 80309-0390

Contributed by Noel A. Clark, August 8, 2013 (sent for review July 10, 2013)

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↵¹To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: noel.clark{at}colorado.edu.

Author contributions: D.C., J.H.P., J.B.H., A.K., Y.S., M.R.T., E.K., D.B., D.M.W., M.A.G., and N.A.C. designed research; D.C., J.H.P., J.B.H., A.K., Y.S., M.R.T., E.K., M.A.G., and N.A.C. performed research; J.H.P. and E.K. contributed new reagents/analytic tools; D.C., J.H.P., J.B.H., A.K., Y.S., M.R.T., D.B., D.M.W., M.A.G., J.E.M., and N.A.C. analyzed data; and D.C., J.H.P., D.B., J.E.M., and N.A.C. wrote the paper.
The authors declare no conflict of interest.
See Commentary on page 15855.
This article contains supporting information online at www.pnas.org/lookup/suppl/doi:10.1073/pnas.1314654110/-/DCSupplemental.

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