Patterns of diacetylene-containing peptide amphiphiles using polarization holography.
The polarization dependence of a diacetylene polymerization was studied. For this purpose, peptide amphiphile fibers with a diacetylene moiety, which could only polymerize in the direction of the fiber, were employed. If nonaligned samples were illuminated with polarized light, only the fibers parallel to the polarization direction of the light were polymerized. With magnetically aligned fibers, spatially selective polymerization was accomplished using polarization holography.
Department of Bio-organic chemistry, Radboud University Nijmegen, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
Maaike
M
van den Heuvel
An M
AM
Prenen
Jeroen C
JC
Gielen
Peter C M
PC
Christianen
Dick J
DJ
Broer
Dennis W P M
DW
Löwik
Jan C M
JC
van Hest
D000114:Acetylene / Q000737:chemistry*; D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D016880:Anisotropy; D006696:Holography; D057927:Hydrophobic and Hydrophilic Interactions; D008280:Magnetics; D010455:Peptides / Q000737:chemistry*; D011108:Polymers / Q000737:chemistry
D010455:Peptides; D011108:Polymers; D000114:Acetylene