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PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Volume 100, Issue 21, Pages 12141-12146Publisher
NATL ACAD SCIENCES
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1534600100
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Carbon nanotubes and biological filaments each spontaneously assemble into kinked helices, rings, and tennis racket shapes due to competition between elastic and interfacial effects. We show that the slender geometry is a more important determinant of the morphology than any molecular details. Our mesoscopic continuum theory is capable of quantifying observations of these structures and is suggestive of their occurrence in other filamentous assemblies as well.
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