Controlling self-assembly within nanospace for peptidenanoparticle fabrication
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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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Weiping Wang1, Zhimou Yang2, Siamrut Patanavanich3
1Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, The Hong Kong University of Science & Technology, Clear Water Bay, Kowloon, Hong Kong, China. ying.chau@ust.hk and Graduate Program of Nano Science and Technology, The Hong Kong University of Science & Technology, Clear Water Bay, Kowloon, Hong Kong, China.
Soft Matter
|September 10, 2020
Abstract:
Here, for the first time, we present a new approach to produce peptide nanoparticles, which involves controlling the self-assembly process with an enzymatic trigger and confining it within nanoscale reverse micelles.

