This movie shows LC-PolScope and phase contrast imaging time lapse of two trimers assembled via optical plow in an achiral background membrane of long rods. The trimer on the left is made up of two right-handed rafts bound to a center left-handed raft. The trimer on the right is made up of two left-handed rafts around a center right-handed raft. Scale bar is 4 μm.
Joia M. Miller, Chaitanya Joshi, Prerna Sharma, Arvind Baskaran, Aparna Baskaran, Gregory M. Grason, Michael F. Hagan, and Zvonimir Dogic
PNAS. 2019. 116:15792-15801 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1900615116