title: A synthetic garden of state of the art natural protein nanoarchitectures dispersed in nanofluids.
abstract: As a significant discovery in the 20th century, carbon nanotubes are attracting particular attention in many unique fields such as electronics, catalysts, hydrogen storage composites, gas sensors, drug delivery, medical diagnostics, therapeutics and nanofluids. In this project, we focus on self-assembled synthetic special natural protein alpha-lactalbumin nanotubes with different (straight, waved, coiled, regularly bent, branched, beaded) shapes, nanospherical particles, nanorods, nanowires, nanopores, polyhedral (hexagonal network, spherical, cubic) nanostructures, nanochannels, nanofibers, nanosheets, nanoleaves, nanowave branched structures, nanobeads, nanoflowers, nanocapsules, novel nano-hybrids consisting of tubes and rods (new core-shell), nanocrystal shapes, apiary or cobweb, branched nanotubes with Y-junctions, nano membrane structures, nano sweep symmetrical shape, nano sponge structures, nano helical homogeneous structures and nano perpendicular and horizontal stable hollow single-walled natural protein nanotubes (NPNTs). These were successfully synthesized by the chemical hydrolysis sol--gel method and partial biochemical enzymatic hydrolysis by cleavage sites (Asp-X and Glu-X) of the milk protein a-lactalbumin by using various organic surfactants, pH controller functions and divalent metallic salt ions as a binding site or ions ligand formation between two bio-based building blocks to form remarkable various new morphologies in appearance of nanoemulsions and clear green nanofluids, for application in the diet nutrition food science and pharmaceutical industry. The characterization by SEM, TEM, XRD and Raman spectroscopy (specific D and G bond in protein nanotubes) confirmed the novelty of these products.
authors.affiliation: Department of Food Science and Technology, Science and Research Branch, Azad University, Tehran, Iran.
authors.forename: Pegah
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Esmaeilzadeh
authors.forename: Zahra
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Fakhroueian
authors.forename: Mohsen
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Jahanshahi
authors.forename: Mohammad
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Chamani
authors.forename: Hamid Reza
authors.initials: HR
authors.lastname: Zamanizadeh
authors.forename: Behnam
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Rasekh
mesh_terms: D006868:Hydrolysis; D007768:Lactalbumin / Q000737:chemistry*; D008855:Microscopy, Electron, Scanning; D046529:Microscopy, Electron, Transmission; D049329:Nanostructures / Q000737:chemistry*; D017550:Spectroscopy, Fourier Transform Infrared; D013499:Surface Properties
chemical_list: D007768:Lactalbumin