Ultrashort Peptides for the Self‐Assembly of an Antiviral Coating (Adv. Mater. Interfaces 6/2023)

Developing Antiviral Coatings In article number 2202161, Tan Hu, Michaela Kaganovich, Meital Reches, and colleagues describe the self-assembly of two extremely short peptides, DOPA-Phe DOPA-Phe(4F), into spherical nanoparticles with excellent antiviral activity. When applied on a surface by drop-casting, these peptide assemblies form transparent coating that deactivate both DNA- RNA-based viruses more than 99.9%.