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Concentrated solutions (>20 wt%) of poly (γ -benzyl L-glutamate) (PBLG) were investigated using small angle light scattering (SALS). The gels and cholesteric liquid crystals formed in PBLG concentrated solutions, were analyzed in terms of theories previously developed for SALS from crystalline polymers. It was found that there are two types of the fibrillar aggregation of α-helices in gels and furthermore, two types of the orientation correlation of α-helices in cholesteric liquid crystals.
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Watanabe, J., Imai, K. & Uematsu, I. Light scattering studies of poly(γ-benzyl L-glutamate) solutions and films. Polymer Bulletin 1, 67–72 (1978). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00280968
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00280968