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Chiral twist drives raft formation and organization in membranes composed of rod-like particles

View ORCID ProfileLouis Kang and Tom C. Lubensky
PNAS January 3, 2017 114 (1) E19-E27; first published December 20, 2016; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1613732114
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  1. Edited by David A. Weitz, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, and approved November 21, 2016 (received for review August 25, 2016)

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vol. 114 no. 1 E19-E27
DOI: 
https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1613732114
PubMed: 
27999184

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National Academy of Sciences
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0027-8424
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1091-6490
History: 
  • Published in issue January 3, 2017.
  • Published first December 20, 2016.

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  1. Louis Kanga,1 and
  2. Tom C. Lubenskya
  1. aDepartment of Physics & Astronomy, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104
  1. Edited by David A. Weitz, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, and approved November 21, 2016 (received for review August 25, 2016)

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  • ↵1To whom correspondence should be addressed. Email: lkang{at}mail.med.upenn.edu.
  • Author contributions: L.K. and T.C.L. designed research, performed research, analyzed data, and wrote the paper.

  • The authors declare no conflict of interest.

  • This article is a PNAS Direct Submission.

  • This article contains supporting information online at www.pnas.org/lookup/suppl/doi:10.1073/pnas.1613732114/-/DCSupplemental.

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