Issue 11, 2014

Silica templating of a self-assembling peptide amphiphile that forms nanotapes

Abstract

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.

Graphical abstract: Silica templating of a self-assembling peptide amphiphile that forms nanotapes

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Article information

Article type
Communication
Submitted
03 Sep 2013
Accepted
29 Jan 2014
First published
31 Jan 2014
This article is Open Access
Creative Commons BY-NC license

Soft Matter, 2014,10, 1660-1664

Silica templating of a self-assembling peptide amphiphile that forms nanotapes

A. Dehsorkhi and I. W. Hamley, Soft Matter, 2014, 10, 1660 DOI: 10.1039/C3SM52324A

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