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Formation of Ordered Biomolecular Structures by the Self-assembly of Short Peptides
Published on: November 21, 2013
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Alberto Fuertes1, Haxel Lionel Ozores1, Manuel Amorín1
1Singular Research Centre in Chemical Biology and Molecular Materials, (CIQUS), Organic Chemistry Department, University of Santiago de Compostela (USC), 15782 Santiago de Compostela, Spain. manuel.amorin@usc.es juanr.ganja@usc.es.
Nanoscale
|December 16, 2016
Abstract:
We describe the design and synthesis of self-assembling peptide nanotubes that have an internal filter area and whose length and internal diameters, at the entrance and in the constricted area, are precisely controlled.

