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SUBMITTER: Yang Y
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3489486 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Soft matter 20111107 3
We combine simulations and experiments to elucidate the molecular forces leading to the assembly of two dimensional membrane-like structures composed of a one rod-length thick monolayer of aligned rods from an immiscible suspension of hard rods and depleting polymers. Computer simulations predict that monolayer membranes are thermodynamically stable above a critical rod aspect ratio and below a critical depletion interaction length scale. Outside of these conditions alternative structures such a ...[more]