TY  - GEN 
AU  - Berent, Katarzyna
AU  - Cartwright, Julyan H. E.
AU  - Checa González, Antonio G.
AU  - Pimentel, Carlos
AU  - Sainz Díaz, Claro Ignacio
PY  - 2022
UR  - https://hdl.handle.net/10481/78195
AB  - We demonstrate that nature has produced a close-packed helical twisted filamentous material in the biomineralization
of the mollusk. In liquid crystals, twist–bend nematics have been predicted and observed. We present
and analyze evidence that the...
LA  - eng
PB  - American Physical Society
TI  - Helical microstructures in molluscan biomineralization are a biological example of close packed helices that may form from a colloidal liquid crystal precursor in a twist–bend nematic phase
DO  - 10.1103/PhysRevMaterials.6.105601
ER  -