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A Self‐Assembling Peptide Polynanoreactor
Author(s) -
Ryadnov Maxim G.
Publication year - 2007
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.200604014
Subject(s) - mesoscopic physics , nanotechnology , nanoparticle , function (biology) , self assembly , peptide , dendrimer , computer science , chemistry , materials science , physics , biology , polymer chemistry , biochemistry , quantum mechanics , evolutionary biology
What goes on within : A mesoscopic nanoporous dendrimer‐like assembly of peptides hosts numerous nanometer‐sized cavities that function as encapsulating sites. As an example, the assembly amplifies a single silver nanoparticle into many discrete nanoparticles of uniform size, and thus it acts as a polynanoreactor (see picture).