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Uniaxially Oriented Peptide Crystals for Active Optical Waveguiding
Author(s) -
Yan Xuehai,
Su Ying,
Li Junbai,
Früh Johannes,
Möhwald Helmuth
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.201103941
Subject(s) - peptide , crystallization , crystal (programming language) , materials science , thermal stability , subject (documents) , crystallography , optoelectronics , nanotechnology , computer science , chemistry , chemical engineering , engineering , world wide web , biochemistry , programming language
Riding the waves : An aldehyde triggers oriented long‐range crystallization of self‐assembling fibrous diphenylalanine peptide networks (see picture). The crystal growth is self‐adjustable and likely subject to kinetic regulation, which leads to the 3D confinement of uniaxially oriented substructures in the resultant crystal. The peptide crystals exhibit remarkable thermal stability and optical waveguiding properties.