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Directing an oligopeptide amphiphile into an aligned nanofiber matrix for elucidating molecular structures
Si-Yong Qin1, Wen-Qiang Ding, Zhi-Wei Jiang
1School of Chemistry and Materials Science, South-Central University for Nationalities, Wuhan 430074, China. sy-qin@mail.scuec.edu.cn aizhang@scuec.edu.cn.
Abstract:
A novel aligned nanofiber matrix was obtained from the self-assembly of an oligopeptide amphiphile. The alignment properties can be applied to measure residual dipolar couplings (RDCs) for the structural elucidation of molecules by liquid-state NMR.
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