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Chiral Self‐Assembly: Capillary Flow‐Driven, Hierarchical Chiral Self‐Assembly of Peptide Nanohelix Arrays (Adv. Mater. Interfaces 19/2017)
Author(s) -
Wang Yuefei,
Qi Wei,
Xing Ruizhe,
Xing Qiguo,
Su Rongxin,
He Zhimin
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
advanced materials interfaces
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.671
H-Index - 65
ISSN - 2196-7350
DOI - 10.1002/admi.201770096
Subject(s) - capillary action , materials science , buoyancy , self assembly , coffee ring effect , perpendicular , substrate (aquarium) , flow (mathematics) , rayleigh scattering , nanotechnology , composite material , mechanics , optics , geometry , physics , oceanography , mathematics , geology
The hierarchical chiral self‐assembly of peptides in evaporating liquid film is reported by Wei Qi and co‐workers in article number 1700514 . By changing the fluid mechanical effects under two distinct regimes: the “coffee ring” effect caused by outward capillary flow and the Rayleigh convection by buoyancy force, the peptides could self‐assemble into well‐aligned nanohelixes with their axis parallel or perpendicular to the substrate.