We introduce and shortly summarize a variety of more recent aspects of lyotropic liquid
crystals (LLCs), which have drawn the attention of the liquid crystal and soft matter …

Filamentous bacteriophages are interesting paradigms in structural molecular biology, in
part because of the unusual mechanism of filamentous phage assembly. During assembly …

Topological structures are effective descriptors of the nonequilibrium dynamics of diverse
many-body systems. For example, motile, point-like topological defects capture the salient …

From determining the optical properties of simple molecular crystals to establishing the
preferred handedness in highly complex vertebrates, molecular chirality profoundly …

Inoviruses are filamentous phages infecting numerous prokaryotic phyla. Inoviruses can self-
assemble into mesoscale structures with liquid-crystalline order, termed tactoids, which …

Amyloid fibrils offer the possibility of controlling their contour length, aspect ratio, and length
distribution, without affecting other structural parameters. Here we show that a fine control in …

The ionic conductance through a nanometer-sized pore in a membrane changes when a
biopolymer slides through it, making nanopores sensitive to single molecules in solution …

We demonstrate that homogeneous monodisperse rods in the presence of attractive
interactions assemble into equilibrium 2D fluid-like membranes composed of a one-rod …

Understanding how nanostructure and nanomechanics influence physical material
properties on the micro-and macroscale is an essential goal in soft condensed matter …

Filamentous phage are elongated semiflexible ssDNA viruses that infect bacteria. The M13
phage, belonging to the family inoviridae, has a length of∼ 1 μm and a diameter of∼ 7 nm …