Self-Assembled Soft Nanomaterials Via Silver(I)-Coordination: Nanotube, Nanofiber, and Remarkably Enhanced
Long Qin1, Peng Wang2, Yuanwang Guo2
1Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Science (BNLMS) CAS Key Laboratory of Colloid Interface and Chemical Thermodynamics Institute of Chemistry Chinese Academy of Sciences Beijing 100190 P. R. China.
Advanced Science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany)
|December 17, 2016
Abstract:
Silver(I)-induced instant gelation of pyridine-containing Fmoc-l-glutamate and its concentration-dependent self-assembly from nanotubes to nanofibers are investigated. The formed metallogel with nanostructure has remarkably enhanced antibacterial activities. Interestingly, the nanotube and nanofiber exhibit different antibacterial activities, and a corresponding antimicrobial mechanism is proposed.
