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A Salt-Templated Synthesis Method for Porous Platinum-based Macrobeams and Macrotubes
Published on: May 18, 2020
Synthesis of peptide-nanotube platinum-nanoparticle composites
Yujiang Song1, Sivakumar R Challa, Craig J Medforth
1Department of Chemistry, University of New Mexico, and Advanced Materials Laboratory, Sandia National Laboratories, Albequerque, USA.
Abstract:
Nanotubes prepared by the self-assembly of D-Phe-D-Phe molecules are investigated by electron microscopy and Monte Carlo simulations; the nanotubes appear to be porous and are capable of forming novel peptide-nanotube platinum-nanoparticle composites.

