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Formation of Ordered Biomolecular Structures by the Self-assembly of Short Peptides
Published on: November 21, 2013
Self-assembly of heterogeneous supramolecular structures with uniaxial anisotropy
M Ruiz-Osés1, N Gonzalez-Lakunza, I Silanes
1Departamento de Física Aplicada I, Universidad del País Vasco, Plaza de Oñate 2, E-20018 Donostia-San SebastiAn, Spain.
Abstract:
Uniaxial anisotropy in two-dimensional self-assembled supramolecular structures is achieved by the coadsorption of two different linear molecules with complementary amine and imide functionalization. The two-dimensional monolayer is defined by a one-dimensional stack of binary chains, which can be forced to line up along steps in vicinal surfaces. The competing driving forces in the self-organization process are discussed in light of the structures observed during single molecule adsorption and coadsorption on flat and vicinal surfaces and the corresponding theoretical calculations.
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