Peptide‐based nanotubes and their applications in bionanotechnology

X Gao, H Matsui - Advanced Materials, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
In nature, biological nanomaterials are synthesized under ambient conditions in a natural
microscopic‐sized laboratory, such as a cell. Biological molecules, such as peptides and …

Self-assembled peptide nanostructures: the design of molecular building blocks and their technological utilization

E Gazit - Chemical Society Reviews, 2007 - pubs.rsc.org
In this tutorial review the process and applications of peptide self-assembly into nanotubes,
nanospheres, nanofibrils, nanotapes, and other ordered structures at the nano-scale are …

Toward the development of peptide nanofilaments and nanoropes as smart materials

DE Wagner, CL Phillips, WM Ali… - Proceedings of the …, 2005 - National Acad Sciences
Protein design studies using coiled coils have illustrated the potential of engineering simple
peptides to self-associate into polymers and networks. Although basic aspects of self …

[PDF][PDF] Formation of well‐organized self‐assembled films from peptide nanotubes

N Hendler, N Sidelman, M Reches, E Gazit… - Advanced …, 2007 - academia.edu
The inherent biocompatibility and potential of biological molecules to undergo chemical and
biological modifications by simple means makes them excellent building blocks for the …

Self-assembly and application of diphenylalanine-based nanostructures

X Yan, P Zhu, J Li - Chemical Society Reviews, 2010 - pubs.rsc.org
Micro-and nanostructures fabricated from biological building blocks have attracted
tremendous attention owing to their potential for application in biology and in …

Peptide nanotubes: molecular organisations, self-assembly mechanisms and applications

C Valéry, F Artzner, M Paternostre - Soft Matter, 2011 - pubs.rsc.org
Peptide nanotubes are promising bio-inspired self-assemblies with a wide range of
envisioned applications. The present review addresses the recent advances in their …

Self‐assembled nanoscale tubular ensembles

MR Ghadiri - 1995 - Wiley Online Library
Nanoscale tubular biomaterials (eg see Fig.) produced by the self‐assembly of peptide
nanotube structures have a potentially wide range of applications in chemistry, biology, and …

Design of nanostructured biological materials through self-assembly of peptides and proteins

S Zhang, DM Marini, W Hwang, S Santoso - Current opinion in chemical …, 2002 - Elsevier
Several self-assembling peptide and protein systems that form nanotubes, helical ribbons
and fibrous scaffolds have recently emerged as biological materials. Peptides and proteins …

High stability of self‐assembled peptide nanowires against thermal, chemical, and proteolytic attacks

J Ryu, CB Park - Biotechnology and bioengineering, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Understanding the self‐assembly of peptides into ordered nanostructures is recently getting
much attention since it can provide an alternative route for fabricating novel bio‐inspired …

Tunable synthesis of self-assembled cyclic peptide nanotubes and nanoparticles

L Sun, Z Fan, Y Wang, Y Huang, M Schmidt, M Zhang - Soft Matter, 2015 - pubs.rsc.org
While tremendous efforts have been made in investigating scalable approaches for
fabricating nanoparticles, less progress has been made in scalable synthesis of cyclic …