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Photoinduced morphological transformation in azobenzene-cored hybrid peptides
Navdeep S Thayat1, Hanuman Singh1, Sameer Dhawan1
1Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, Hauz Khas, New Delhi-110016, India. haridasv@chemistry.iitd.ac.in.
Chemical Communications (Cambridge, England)
|June 16, 2026
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We present reversible light-induced morphological transformations of designer pseudopeptides that mimic self-replication.
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