@article{ISI:000396705300008,
 abstract = {Recent experiments have shown that short double-stranded DNA (dsDNA)
fragments having six- to 20-base pairs exhibit various liquid
crystalline phases. This violates the condition of minimum molecular
shape anisotropy that analytical theories demand for liquid crystalline
ordering. It has been hypothesized that the liquid crystalline ordering
is the result of end-to-end stacking of dsDNA to form long
supramolecular columns which satisfy the shape anisotropy criterion
necessary for ordering. To probe the thermodynamic feasibility of this
process, we perform molecular dynamics simulations on ultrashort (four
base pair long) dsDNA fragments, quantify the strong end-to-end
attraction between them, and demonstrate that the nematic ordering of
the self-assembled stacked columns is retained for a large range of
temperature and salt concentration.},
 article-number = {032702},
 author = {Saurabh, Suman and Lansac, Yves and Jang, Yun Hee and Glaser, Matthew A.
and Clark, Noel A. and Maiti, Prabal K.},
 doi = {10.1103/PhysRevE.95.032702},
 eissn = {2470-0053},
 issn = {2470-0045},
 journal = {PHYSICAL REVIEW E},
 month = {MAR 16},
 number = {3},
 orcid-numbers = {Maiti, Prabal/0000-0002-9956-1136
Clark, Noel A./0000-0001-9301-5540},
 researcherid-numbers = {Maiti, Prabal/B-6335-2009
Clark, Noel/AAP-9116-2020
Clark, Noel A./E-9011-2010},
 times-cited = {10},
 title = {Understanding the origin of liquid crystal ordering of ultrashort
double-stranded DNA},
 unique-id = {ISI:000396705300008},
 volume = {95},
 year = {2017}
}