Silica templating of a self-assembling peptide amphiphile that forms nanotapes.
basic_science · Level V
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Abstract
The peptide amphiphile C16-KTTKS templates silica polymerization, enabling the production of silica nanotape structures, imaged via electron microscopy (TEM and SEM). X-ray scattering shows that the nanotapes comprise stacked layers, as for the parent peptide amphiphile, but with a substantially increased layer spacing resulting from silica polymerization.
Medical subject headings
- Nanoparticles
- Oligopeptides
- Peptides
- Silicon Dioxide