Plasmonic Amyloid Tactoids (Adv. Mater. 51/2021)

Abstract

Liquid-Crystalline Droplets In article number 2106155, Raffaele Mezzenga and co-workers demonstrate a schematic representation of amyloid fibrils confined within a liquid-crystalline droplet formed by liquid–liquid-crystalline phase separation, and organized in a chiral nematic conformation, capable of guiding the spatial and orientational distribution of functionalized gold nanorods added to the colloidal system.