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SOFT MATTER
卷 7, 期 10, 页码 4868-4875出版社
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/c0sm01186j
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- Swedish Research Council
- Linnaeus Center Organizing Molecular Matter
The trifluoroacetate (tfa) salt of the peptide (ala)(6)lys self-assembles in water into very long, hollow nanotubes with a radius R = 26 nm, above a critical aggregation concentration (volume fraction), phi(cac) = 0.10. The peptides carry a net positive charge that ensures colloidal stability of the self-assembly structures through a long-range electrostatic repulsion. There is only a weak temperature dependence of phi(cac) from which an enthalpy of aggregation of -k(B)T per molecule is estimated. SAXS data show that the thickness of the nanotube wall, delta, is less than 1 nm indicating that the peptides form a monolayer in the nanotube wall. The nanotubes have a very large aspect ratio and form an ordered nematic or hexagonal phase. Because of the low delta/R ratio, the nanotube volume fraction grows very rapidly with increasing peptide concentration, phi, and reaches close packing already at phi = 0.15. When increasing the concentration further, there is a phase transition to a novel lamellar phase where the peptide molecules form bilayers consisting of two, presumably oppositely oriented, monolayers.
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