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Back Cover: Interfacial Self‐Assembly of Cell‐like Filamentous Microcapsules (Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 28/2011)
Author(s) -
Rożkiewicz Dorota I.,
Myers Benjamin D.,
Stupp Samuel I.
Publication year - 2011
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.201103447
Subject(s) - amphiphile , biopolymer , membrane , self assembly , polymer , chemical engineering , materials science , chitosan , aqueous solution , capsule , polymer chemistry , nanotechnology , polymer science , chemistry , copolymer , organic chemistry , biochemistry , composite material , botany , engineering , biology
Peptide amphiphiles and oppositely charged polymers can self‐assemble into highly organized membranes at the interface of two aqueous solutions. In their Communication on page 6324 ff., S. I. Stupp and co‐workers report how the biopolymer was sprayed into a peptide amphiphile solution to template the formation of cell‐like microcapsules. The image shows SEM micrographs of a group of filamentous microcapsules, a single capsule (blue), the surface nanofilaments (yellow), and a membrane cross section (sepia).