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Mechanical Properties. The hexagonal symmetry of a graphite crystal causes the elastic properties to be transversely isotropic ia the layer plane only five independent constants are necessary to define the complete set. The self-consistent set of elastic constants given ia Table 2 has been measured ia air at room temperature for highly ordered pyrolytic graphite (20). With the exception of these values are expected to be representative of... 

ITowever, membrane proteins can also be distributed in nonrandom ways across the surface of a membrane. This can occur for several reasons. Some proteins must interact intimately with certain other proteins, forming multisubunit complexes that perform specific functions in the membrane. A few integral membrane proteins are known to self-associate in the membrane, forming large multimeric clusters. Bacteriorhodopsin, a light-driven proton pump protein, forms such clusters, known as purple patches, in the membranes of Halobacterium halobium (Eigure 9.9). The bacteriorhodopsin protein in these purple patches forms highly ordered, two-dimensional crystals. 

Table X gives an idea of the strength of the various expansion methods, and it shows that, by using the principal term only, one can hardly expect to reach even the above-mentioned chemical margin, even if the wave function W gO(D) is actually very close in the helium case. This means that one has to rely on expansions in complete sets, and the construction of the modern electronic computers has fortunately greatly facilitated the numerical solution of secular equations of high order and the calculation of the matrix elements involved. For atoms, the development will probably go very fast, but, for small molecules one has first to program the conventional Hartree-Fock scheme in a fully self-consistent way for the computers, before the next step can be taken. For large molecules and crystals, the entire situation is much more complicated, and it will hence probably take a rather long time before one can hope to get a detailed understanding of the correlation phenomena in these systems.

The expectation of the structural dependence of lubrication motivated great numbers of investigations that intended to prepare and use highly ordered organic films, such as the Langmuir-Blodgett (L-B) hlms and Self-Assembled Monolayers (SAMs), as solid lubricant, which will be discussed more specihcally in Section 4. 

Fig. 7.9 SEM images of HSA nanotubes pre- (C) The length of the resulting nanotubes is pared by self-assembly in AAO membranes. about 60pm. (D) Highlyflexible HSA nanotubes. (A) HSA nanotube arrays afterthe removal ofthe (Reproduced from [93] with permission of the AAO template. (B) Highly ordered HSA nano- American Chemical Society, Copyright 2005 tubes with a wall thickness of around 30 nm. American Chemical Society).

Pace G, Ferri V, Grave C, Elbing M, Zhamikov M, Major M, Rarnpi MA, Samori P (2007) Cooperative light-induced molecular movements of highly ordered azobenzene self-assembled monolayers. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 104 9937-9942... 

Figure 1.27 Double-walled silica nanotubes with monodisperse diameters self-orga-nize into highly ordered centimetre-sized fibres, using a synthetic octa-peptide as a template. The growth mechanism is proposed to be the fundamental mechanism for growth processes in biological systems. (Reproduced from ref. 53, with permission.)...

Impressive, highly ordered centimetre-sized fibres are obtained whose synergistic growth mechanism based on the kinetic cross-coupling of a dynamical supramolecular self-assembly and a stabilizing silica mineralization may well be the basis of the synthetic paths used by Nature to obtain its materials with well-defined multiscale architectures in biological systems. 

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