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Self‐Assembly of Hexagonal Peptide Microtubes and Their Optical Waveguiding
Author(s) -
Yan Xuehai,
Li Junbai,
Möhwald Helmuth
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
advanced materials
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 10.707
H-Index - 527
eISSN - 1521-4095
pISSN - 0935-9648
DOI - 10.1002/adma.201100353
Subject(s) - materials science , hexagonal crystal system , self assembly , peptide , nanotechnology , optoelectronics , crystallography , biochemistry , chemistry
Hexagonal peptide microtubes are spontaneously formed upon solvent thermal annealing. They have diameters on the order of micrometers and reach several millimeters in length. The microtubes evolve hierarchically in a hexagonal packing pattern from the molecular level to the micrometer scale. Such crystalline peptide microtubes serve as an active optical waveguide, allowing for light propagation along the long axis.