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Water in Oil Emulsions: A New System for Assembling Water-soluble Chlorophyll-binding Proteins with Hydrophobic Pigments
Published on: March 21, 2016
Self-Assembled Microporous Peptide-Polysaccharide Aerogels for Oil-Water Separation
Xin Yang1, Yanyan Xie1,2, Yuefei Wang1,3
1State Key Laboratory of Chemical Engineering, School of Chemical Engineering and Technology , Tianjin University , Tianjin 300072 , P. R. China.
Abstract:
We report a new kind of peptide-polysaccharide aerogel which was formed by the coassembly of the fluorenylmethyloxycarbonyl-diphenylalanine (Fmoc-FF) peptide and the polysaccharide konjac glucomannan (KGM). The porosity and hydrophobicity of the hybrid aerogels could be facilely tailored by modifying the mass ratio of Fmoc-FF and KGM. The aerogels with tunable architecture showed good performance for the separation of a wide variety of oil-water mixtures. The results provide an opportunity for the design of peptide materials as a new class of biocompatible absorbents with potential applications in biomedicine and separation.
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