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NATURE MATERIALS
卷 9, 期 7, 页码 594-601出版社
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/NMAT2778
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- US Department of Energy-Basic Energy Sciences [DE-FG02-00ER45810, DE-FG02-08ER46539]
- National Institutes of Health [5-R01-EB003806, 5-R01-DE015920, 5-P50-NS054287]
- National Science Foundation [DMR-0605427]
- Department of Homeland Security Fellowship
- Non-Equilibrium Energy Research Center (NERC)
- DOE-BES [DE-SC0000989]
- Northwestern University
- Ben Gurion University of Negev, Israel
- NSF-NSEC
- NSF-MRSEC [DMR-0520513]
- Keck Foundation
- State of Illinois
- E. I. DuPont de Nemours
- The Dow Chemical Company
- US National Science Foundation [DMR-9304725]
- State of Illinois through the Department of Commerce and the Board of Higher Education [IBHE HECA NWU 96]
- US Department of Energy-Office of Basic Energy Sciences [W-31-109-Eng-38, DE-AC02-06CH11357]
- National Institutes of Health, National Center for Research Resources [RR007707]
- Generalitat de Catalunya
- Division Of Materials Research
- Direct For Mathematical & Physical Scien [1006713] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
Aggregates of charged amphiphilic molecules have been found to access a structure at elevated temperature that templates alignment of supramolecular fibrils over macroscopic scales. The thermal pathway leads to a lamellar plaque structure with fibrous texture that breaks on cooling into large arrays of aligned nanoscale fibres and forms a strongly birefringent liquid. By manually dragging this liquid crystal from a pipette onto salty media, it is possible to extend this alignment over centimetres in noodle-shaped viscoelastic strings. Using this approach, the solution of supramolecular filaments can be mixed with cells at physiological temperatures to form monodomain gels of aligned cells and filaments. The nature of the self-assembly process and its biocompatibility would allow formation of cellular wires in situ that have any length and customized peptide compositions for use in biological applications.
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