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Interaction of Magnetic Nanoparticles with Lyotropic Liquid Crystal Studied by AFM

N. Tomašovičová^a,b, C.-W. Yang^b, L. Balejčíková^a, V. Gdovinová^a, M. Kubovčíková^a, S. Hayryan^b, I.-S. Hwang^b, Chin-Kun Hu^b,c,d and P. Kopčanský^a
^aInstitute of Experimental Physics, SAS, Watsonova 47, 040 01 Košice, Slovakia
^bInstitute of Physics, Academia Sinica, 128 Sec. 2, Academia Rd., Nankang, Taipei, Taiwan
^cNational Center for Theoretical Sciences, National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu 30013, Taiwan
^dBusiness School, University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, Shanghai 200093, China

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In this work the interaction of lysozyme fibrils with magnetic particles has been studied by atomic force microscopy. The experiments were carried out for a better understanding of the binding process of such complex soft matter systems. The obtained results show that interaction between lysozyme fibrils and magnetic particles starts immediately after mixing them together. Moreover, the samples remain stable in duration of several days after preparation.

DOI: 10.12693/APhysPolA.131.958
PACS numbers: 75.75.Fk, 87.14.em, 82.37.Gk