Liquid crystallinity in collagen solutio
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N. S. Murthy
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Article
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1984
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Wiley (John Wiley & Sons)
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English
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Studies of the optical birefringence of solutions of acid-soluble collagen from rat-tail tendon a t 22ยฐC in the pH range 1.0-6.0 show that collagen exhibits an isotropic to mesophase transition only between pH 2.4 and 3.0 a t 10% weight concentration. Such liquid crystalline order is probably essent