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PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS
Volume 100, Issue 16, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.168301
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We report a study of colloidal suspensions of highly monodisperse semiflexible chiral rodlike viruses, denoted fd, in the range of high concentrations. Small angle x-ray scattering experiments reveal the existence of two hexagonal phases: the first one is crystalline and the second one is hexatic columnar, as shown by its short-range positional order. The suspension of rodlike viruses is the first experimental system showing the whole phase sequence with increasing particle concentration theoretically predicted for systems of hard rods, ranging from the chiral nematic via the smectic to columnar and crystalline phases.
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