Virgil Percec1, Andrés E Dulcey, Venkatachalapathy S K Balagurusamy

  • 1Roy & Diana Vagelos Laboratories, Department of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6323, USA. percec@sas.upenn.edu

Nature
|August 13, 2004
PubMed
まとめ

科学者たちは,機能的な螺旋状の毛穴に自己組み立てられる新しいアンフィフィリック・デンドリティック・ディペプチドを設計した. このブレークスルーは,多孔構造を持つ生物学的にインスピレーションを受けた合成システムを作成するための新しいプラットフォームを提供します.

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