Chiral self-assembly of peptides: Toward the design of supramolecular polymers with enhanced chemical and biological functions

Y Shen, Y Wang, IW Hamley, W Qi, R Su… - Progress in Polymer …, 2021 - Elsevier
Chirality is one of the most important structural features in biological systems. Peptides, as a
class of small biomolecules, can self-assemble into various chiral supramolecular polymers …

Supramolecular chirality transfer toward chiral aggregation: asymmetric hierarchical self‐assembly

S Huang, H Yu, Q Li - Advanced Science, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Self‐assembly, as a typical bottom‐up strategy for the fabrication of functional materials, has
been applied to fabricate chiral materials with subtle chiral nanostructures. The chiral …

Designer nanomaterials using chiral self-assembling peptide systems and their emerging benefit for society

Z Luo, S Zhang - Chemical Society Reviews, 2012 - pubs.rsc.org
Chirality is absolutely central in chemistry and biology. The recent findings of chiral self-
assembling peptides' remarkable chemical complementarity and structural compatibility …

Controlling supramolecular chirality in multicomponent self-assembled systems

P Xing, Y Zhao - Accounts of Chemical Research, 2018 - ACS Publications
Conspectus Chirality exists as a ubiquitous phenomenon in nature, from molecular level l-
amino acids, d-sugar, secondary structures of proteins, DNA, RNA, and nanoscale helices to …

Hierarchical self-assembly into chiral nanostructures

Y Sang, M Liu - Chemical Science, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
One basic principle regulating self-assembly is associated with the asymmetry of constituent
building blocks or packing models. Using asymmetry to manipulate molecular-level devices …

Biomimetic peptide self-assembly for functional materials

A Levin, TA Hakala, L Schnaider… - Nature Reviews …, 2020 - nature.com
Natural biomolecular systems have evolved to form a rich variety of supramolecular
materials and machinery fundamental to cellular function. The assembly of these structures …

Chirality-controlled polymerization-induced self-assembly

H Li, EJ Cornel, Z Fan, J Du - Chemical Science, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Recent studies have shown that biodegradable nanoparticles can be efficiently prepared
with polymerization of N-carboxyanhydrides-induced self-assembly (NCA-PISA). However …

[HTML][HTML] Chirality effects on peptide self-assembly unraveled from molecules to materials

AM Garcia, D Iglesias, E Parisi, KE Styan… - Chem, 2018 - cell.com
Self-assembling short peptides are attractive minimal systems for mimicking the constituents
of living systems and building (bio) materials. The combination of both d-and l-amino acids …

Controlled noncovalent synthesis of secondary supramolecular polymers

S Sarkar, R Laishram, D Deb… - Journal of the American …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Dynamic supramolecular polymers, with their functional similarities to classical covalent
polymers and their adaptive and self-repairing nature reminiscent of biological assemblies …

Recent progress of chiral hierarchical assemblies from a Chinese perspective

W Gong, W Wang, J Dong, X Pan, Y Liu… - CCS …, 2023 - chinesechemsoc.org
Self-assembly of predesigned chiral molecules to form structurally diverse functional
materials has been one of the most exciting recent developments in materials science and …