title: Silica templating of a self-assembling peptide amphiphile that forms nanotapes.
abstract: The peptide amphiphile C16-KTTKS templates silica polymerization, enabling the production of silica nanotape structures, imaged via electron microscopy (TEM and SEM). X-ray scattering shows that the nanotapes comprise stacked layers, as for the parent peptide amphiphile, but with a substantially increased layer spacing resulting from silica polymerization.
authors.affiliation: School of Chemistry, Pharmacy and Food Biosciences, University of Reading, Whiteknights, Reading, RG6 6AD, UK.
authors.forename: Ashkan
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Dehsorkhi
authors.forename: Ian W
authors.initials: IW
authors.lastname: Hamley
mesh_terms: D053758:Nanoparticles / Q000737:chemistry*; D009842:Oligopeptides / Q000737:chemistry*; D010455:Peptides / Q000737:chemistry*; D012822:Silicon Dioxide / Q000737:chemistry*; D013501:Surface-Active Agents / Q000737:chemistry
chemical_list: D009842:Oligopeptides; D010455:Peptides; D013501:Surface-Active Agents; C525923:lysyl-threonyl-threonyl-lysyl-serine; D012822:Silicon Dioxide