BACKGROUND The increasing demand for environmentally friendly organic
semiconductors that can be easily fabricated and tuned has inspired scientists to design self …

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Short, self-assembling peptides form a variety of stable nanostructures used for the rational
design of functional devices. Peptides serve as organic templates for conjugating …

Low biocompatibility or engineerability of conventional inorganic materials limits their
extensive application for power harvesting in biological systems or at bio-machine …

Peptide self-assembly is a powerful method to create functional nanoscale materials such as
optoelectronically relevant organic nanostructures. The enormous potential that may come …

The self-assembly of small molecules provides a potentially powerful method to create
functional nanomaterials for many applications ranging from optoelectronics to oncology …

To determine the ability of semiconductors templated by α-helical polypeptides to form
higher order structures and the charge carrier properties of the supramolecular assemblies, l …

Peptide self‐assembly is an attractive route for the synthesis of intricate organic
nanostructures that possess remarkable structural variety and biocompatibility. Recent …

Noncovalent interactions are the main driving force in the folding of proteins into a 3D
functional structure. Motivated by the wish to reveal the mechanisms of the associated self …

Peptides can self‐assemble into various hierarchical nanostructures through noncovalent
interactions and form functional materials exhibiting excellent chemical and physical …