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MACROMOLECULES
Volume 42, Issue 18, Pages 7137-7145Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/ma9003242
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- NSF [CHE0348323]
- US Department of Commerce [70NANB7H6178]
- NIH [5RO1DEO16383]
- W. M. Keck Foundation
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Physically cross-linked, fibrillar hydrogel networks are formed by the self-assembly of beta-hairpin peptide molecules with varying degrees of strand asymmetry. The peptide registry in the self-assembled state can be used as a design element to generate fibrils with twisting, nontwisting, or laminated morphology. The mass density of the networks varies significantly, and call be directly related to the local fibrillar morphology as evidenced by small angle neutron scattering (SANS) and in situ substantiation using cryogenic transmission electron microscopy (cryo-TEM) under identical concentrations and conditions. Similarly, the density of the network is dependent on changes in the peptide concentration. Bulk rheological properties of the hydrogels can be correlated to the fibrillar nanostructure, with the stiffer, laminated fibrils forming networks with it higher G' as compared to the flexible, singular fibrillar networks.
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