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Photo-induced reversible structural transition of cationic diphenylalanine peptide self-assembly
Hongchao Ma1, Jinbo Fei, Qi Li
1Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, CAS Key Lab of Colloid, Interface and Chemical Thermodynamics, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100190, PR China.
Small (Weinheim an Der Bergstrasse, Germany)
|November 19, 2014
Abstract:
The photo-induced self-assembly of a cationic diphenylalanine peptide (CDP) is investigated using a photoswitchable sulfonic azobenzene as the manipulating unit. A reversible structural transition between a branched structure and a vesicle-like structure is observed by alternating between UV and visible light irradiation.

