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Wrapping Peptide Tubes: Merging Biological Self‐Assembly and Polymer Synthesis
Author(s) -
Balbo Block Marco A.,
Hecht Stefan
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
angewandte chemie international edition
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.831
H-Index - 550
eISSN - 1521-3773
pISSN - 1433-7851
DOI - 10.1002/anie.200502436
Subject(s) - peptide , polymer , self assembly , self assembling peptide , materials science , nanotechnology , chemistry , composite material , biochemistry
It's a wrap : Self‐assembling peptide tubes are wrapped in polymer sheaths by using efficient graft‐from or attach‐to routes (see scheme). The properties of the peptide tubes are tuned by the polymer sheath, and the resulting peptide–polymer hybrids could prove useful for various future applications.