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Aromatic dipeptides light up

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Metal coordination and π–π stacking interactions drive the assembly of dipeptides into nanostructures with superior optical properties.

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Figure 1: The assembly of a tri-component system for monitoring cell targeting and drug release.

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  1. Ehud Gazit is in the Department of Molecular Microbiology and Biotechnology, George S. Wise Faculty of Life Sciences and Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Iby and Aladar Fleischman Faculty of Engineering, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv 69978, Israel,

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Gazit, E. Aromatic dipeptides light up. Nature Nanotech 11, 309–310 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1038/nnano.2015.321

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