Solution Aggregation of Short Peptide Amphiphiles

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Short peptide sequences consisting of hydrophobic and hydrophilic amino acid units are capable of self-assembly, leading interfacial adsorption and solution nano-aggregation. Because these peptide molecules bear basic resemblance to conventional alkyl chain surfactants, it is useful to compare their surface and interfacial activity and to explore how surfactant science can be applied to this new series of surface active species. Peptide surfactants differ from alkyl chain surfactants in that they are essentially short graft polymers and that the backbone carries labile hydrogens capable of hydrogen bonding. This work focuses on the study of peptide surfactants such as I3K1, L3K1 and I5K1 to work out the main structural features of interfacial layers and nanoaggregates.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.24090550
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/24090550
Provenance
Creator Dr Mario Campana; Professor Jian Lu; Mr Zhiming Lu; Dr Xiubo (Jon) Zhao; Professor Jiqian Wang; Professor Hai Xu
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2016
Rights CC-BY Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
OpenAccess true
Contact isisdata(at)stfc.ac.uk
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Resource Type Dataset
Discipline Photon- and Neutron Geosciences
Temporal Coverage Begin 2013-05-23T08:00:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2013-05-27T08:00:00Z