Curvature instability of chiral colloidal membranes on crystallization

Buckling and wrinkling are instabilities which involve thin elastic sheets and are well-investigated phenomena at the macroscale. Here Saikia et al. investigate curvature instabilities at the colloidal lengthscale in quasi-2D monolayers of rod-like viruses across the fluid-crystal phase transition.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Lachit Saikia, Tanmoy Sarkar, Meera Thomas, V. A. Raghunathan, Anirban Sain, Prerna Sharma
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2017-10-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-01441-3