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DOI: 10.1039/C4SM90162B
(Correction)
Soft Matter, 2015, 11, 422-422
Correction: Phase behaviour and complex coacervation of aqueous polypeptide solutions
Dimitrios
Priftis
* and
Matthew
Tirrell
Department of Bioengineering, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA. E-mail: dpriftis@uchicago.edu
Received
12th November 2014
, Accepted 12th November 2014
First published on 20th November 2014
Abstract
Correction for ‘Phase behaviour and complex coacervation of aqueous polypeptide solutions’ by Dimitrios Priftis et al., Soft Matter, 2012, 8, 9396–9405.
In this work on the phase behaviour of aqueous polypeptide solutions, a series of poly(glutamic acid) and poly(aspartic acid) polymers with different molecular weights were used. On numerous occasions throughout the manuscript (e.g. abstract, introduction) these polymers were referred to as poly(L-glutamic acid) and poly(L-aspartic acid), implying that they were optically pure. After communication with the supplier (Alamanda Polymers, Inc.) and performing further characterization it has come to our attention that these polymers were not optically pure (L) but contained a number of D repeating units and should therefore be referred to as poly(D,L-glutamic acid) and poly(D,L-aspartic acid), respectively. This recent realization of the racemic nature of the polyanions used does not affect any of the findings or the conclusions of this study.
The Royal Society of Chemistry apologises for these errors and any consequent inconvenience to authors and readers.
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