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Nanomaterials: Reconfigurable Chiral Self‐Assembly of Peptides through Control of Terminal Charges (Small 30/2017)
Author(s) -
Xie Yanyan,
Wang Yuefei,
Qi Wei,
Huang Renliang,
Su Rongxin,
He Zhimin
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
small
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.785
H-Index - 236
eISSN - 1613-6829
pISSN - 1613-6810
DOI - 10.1002/smll.201770161
Subject(s) - nanomaterials , tripeptide , chirality (physics) , self assembly , nanotechnology , peptide , terminal (telecommunication) , materials science , chemistry , computer science , physics , biochemistry , telecommunications , chiral symmetry breaking , quantum mechanics , quark , nambu–jona lasinio model
In article number 1700999 , Wei Qi, Renliang Huang, and co‐workers, report a new approach to design chiral nanostructures from self‐assembly of N‐(9‐fluorenylmethoxycarbonyl)‐protected phenylalanine‐tryptophan‐lysine tripeptides. The terminal charges strongly affect the direction and degree of twisting in the β‐sheets. This enables the assembly of reconfigurable nanomaterials with their chirality that can be inverted dynamically between left‐ and right‐handedness.