One-pot crystalline ZnO nanorod growth in mineralizing peptide gels
Luona Anjia1, Zengyan Wei1, Hiroshi Matsui1
1Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, City University of New York Hunter College, 695 Park Avenue, New York, NY, USA 10065.
RSC Advances
|October 22, 2019
Abstract:
A new biomimetic approach for the one-pot synthesis of ZnO nanorods at neutral pH and room temperature is introduced; self-assembly of the ZnO-mineralzing peptides (CN111, PAGLQVGFAVEV-GGGSC) with Zn ions as bundles of nanofibers in the gel form leads to the growth of ZnO nanorod (NRD) inside the gel. This new nanomaterial synthesis may open a new strategy by using the catalytic peptide gels as nanomaterial reactors.


