Silica templating of a self-assembling peptide amphiphile that forms nanotapes.
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The peptide amphiphile C16-KTTKS templates silica polymerization, enabling the production of silica nanotape structures, imaged via electron microscopy (TEM and SEM). X-ray scattering shows that the nanotapes comprise stacked layers, as for the parent peptide amphiphile, but with a substantially increased layer spacing resulting from silica polymerization.
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Soft matter
دوره 10 11 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2014