Issue 45, 2021, Issue in Progress

Assembly of iron oxide nanosheets at the air–water interface by leucine–histidine peptides

Abstract

The fabrication of inorganic nanomaterials is important for a wide range of disciplines. While many purely inorganic synthetic routes have enabled a manifold of nanostructures under well-controlled conditions, organisms have the ability to synthesize structures under ambient conditions. For example, magnetotactic bacteria, can synthesize tiny ‘compass needles’ of magnetite (Fe3O4). Here, we demonstrate the bio-inspired synthesis of extended, self-supporting, nanometer-thin sheets of iron oxide at the water–air interface through self-assembly using small histidine-rich peptides.

Graphical abstract: Assembly of iron oxide nanosheets at the air–water interface by leucine–histidine peptides

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Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
18 Jun 2021
Accepted
06 Aug 2021
First published
18 Aug 2021
This article is Open Access
Creative Commons BY-NC license

RSC Adv., 2021,11, 27965-27968

Assembly of iron oxide nanosheets at the air–water interface by leucine–histidine peptides

N. Hoinkis, H. Lutz, H. Lu, T. W. Golbek, M. Bregnhøj, G. Jakob, M. Bonn and T. Weidner, RSC Adv., 2021, 11, 27965 DOI: 10.1039/D1RA04733G

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