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JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY
Volume 125, Issue 2, Pages 352-356Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/ja0277632
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Poly(ethylene oxide)-block-poly(L-lysine) (PEO-PLL) was complexed with an amphiphilic hexa-peri-hexabenzocoronene (HBC). This produced a thermotropic liquid crystalline material (PEO-PLL-HBC), which was investigated by FTIR spectroscopy and differential scanning calorimetry as well as by wide-and small-angle X-ray scattering. It was found that the POLY(L-lysine) blocks form an alpha-helical secondary structure. Each helix is surrounded symmetrically by six discotic columns of HBC, which gives an alpha-helical-within-discotic column structural entity. The dense packing of these entities produces hexagonal sublattices (formed by the columns) in the frame of a two-dimensional hexagonal lattice (formed by the helices). An order-order transition from a columnar structure CoI1 to CoI2 was found at 54 degreesC. The unit cell constants are 5.75 nm (CoI1) and 6.60 nm (CoI2). The larger unit cell size Of CoI2 was explained by a higher intracolumnar order of the latter in which the packing distance of the disklike HBC cores is well-defined (0.353 nm). PEO-PLL-HBC combines essential features of liquid crystals with a basic structural element of proteins into a single material.
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