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APPLIED NANOSCIENCE
Volume 7, Issue 3-4, Pages 101-107Publisher
SPRINGER HEIDELBERG
DOI: 10.1007/s13204-017-0551-5
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Self-assembly; Tyrosine; Tryptophan; Nanotubes
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- IIT Kanpur
- SERB-DST, New Delhi
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Self-assembly of biomolecules has gained increasing attention as it generates various supramolecular structural assemblies having potential applications principally in biomedical sciences. Here, we show that amino acid like tryptophan or tyrosine readily aggregates as nanotubes via a simple self-assembly process. These were characterized by FTIR, scanning electron microscopy, and by fluorescence microscopy. Nanotubes prepared from tryptophan are having similar to 200 nm inner diameter and those from tyrosine are having the same around similar to 50 nm diameter.
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