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Large Self-Assembled Peptide Fibers

  • Multiscale Mechanics of Hierarchical Biological, Bioinspired, and Biomedical Materials
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Many systems, including peptide systems, have been identified that self-assemble into nanometer sized structures. However, continued self-assembly to the macroscopic scale has remained elusive even though nature routinely does it. Here, a unique hierarchical peptide self-assembly process is described from the nanometer to the micrometer scale.

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  1. Biological Systems Engineering Dept., Virginia Tech, 303 Seitz Hall (0303), Blacksburg, VA, 24061, USA

    Justin R. Barone & Ahmad Athamneh

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Barone, J.R., Athamneh, A. Large Self-Assembled Peptide Fibers. MRS Online Proceedings Library 1301, 131–136 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1557/opl.2011.536

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