Nature is an important inspirational source for scientists, and presents complex and elegant
examples of adaptive and intelligent systems created by self-assembly. Significant effort has …

Peptide and protein biomolecules folded into two fundamentally different conformations,
either a-helical or b-sheet, carry out dissimilar biological functions. In living organisms, an a …

UV irradiation of aligned diphenylalanine peptide nanotubes (FF-PNTs) decorated with
plasmonic silver nanoparticles (Ag NPs) enables photo-induced surface-enhanced Raman …

The development of new catalysts for oxidation reactions is of central importance for many
industrial processes. Plasmonic catalysis involves photoexcitation of templates/chips to drive …

Semiconducting materials are increasingly proposed as alternatives to noble metal
nanomaterials to enhance Raman scattering. We demonstrate that bioinspired …

The potential use of nanostructured dipeptide self-assemblies in materials science for
energy harvesting devices is a highly sought-after area of research. Specifically, aromatic …

A polymorph of glycyl-L-alanine HI. H2O is synthesized from chiral cyclo-glycyl-L-alanine
dipeptide. The dipeptide is known to show molecular flexibility in different environments …

We report a coiled-coil trimeric peptide based on the known GCN4 zipper motif that self-
assembles into nanotubes with diameters on the order of a few hundred nanometers to a …

Unique linear and nonlinear optical properties of bioinspired peptide nanostructures such as
wideband transparency and high second-order nonlinear optical response, combined with …

Piezoelectric diphenylalanine peptide nanotubes (PNTs) have recently been demonstrated
in energy harvesting applications, typically based on vertically aligned PNTs that generate …