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Supramolecular chirality

Let’s twist again

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Filamentous viruses are a tunable platform for understanding the propagation of chirality across length scales, starting from the helical organization of major coat proteins on the virion surface to the liquid crystalline cholesteric phases formed in aqueous suspensions.

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Fig. 1: Illustration depicting the hierarchical transfer of chirality for two strains of filamentous bacteriophages depending on pertinent interactions and overall shape.

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T.H. acknowledges support from the Ohio Research Scholar Program ‘Research cluster on surfaces in advanced materials’.

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  1. Materials Science Graduate Program, Kent State University, Kent, OH, USA

    Grace A. R. Rohaley & Torsten Hegmann

  2. Advanced Materials and Liquid Crystal Institute, Kent State University, Kent, OH, USA

    Grace A. R. Rohaley & Torsten Hegmann

  3. Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Kent State University, Kent, OH, USA

    Torsten Hegmann

  4. Brain Health Research Institute, Kent State University, Kent, OH, USA

    Torsten Hegmann

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Rohaley, G.A.R., Hegmann, T. Let’s twist again. Nat. Mater. 23, 1161–1163 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41563-024-01969-y

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