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Self-assembly of Complex Two-dimensional Shapes from Single-stranded DNA Tiles
Published on: May 8, 2015
Unambiguous characterization of anisotropic foldamer packing in a foldecture with an elongated hexagonal plate shape
Eunyoung Yoon1, Jintaek Gong, Yoonchul Jung
1Department of Chemistry, KAIST, Daejeon, 305-701, Korea. hee-seung_lee@kaist.ac.kr.
Abstract:
Herein we correlate secondary structure perturbation with changes in the solid-state molecular architectures of an elongated hexagonal plate-shaped foldecture derived from the self-assembly of rigid 12-helical β-peptide foldamers to which a flexible C-terminus α-leucine moiety has been appended. This study provides the first complete characterization of the directional molecular packing patterns of individual foldamer components within a foldecture, from which a 3D molecular-level picture of the entire foldecture was unambiguously constructed.
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