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Peptide-powered boats

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The release and self-assembly of peptides from metal–organic frameworks creates surface tension differences that can fuel the cruising motion of the framework, and a microscale 'boat' wrapped around a framework particle, at the air/liquid interface.

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Figure 1: A schematic showing the cruising ability of a metal–organic framework (MOF) particle with encapsulated DPA peptide on the surface of an EDTA solution8.

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  1. Laurent Courbin and Franck Artzner are in the Institut de Physique de Rennes, Unité Mixte de Recherche CNRS 6251, Campus Beaulieu, Université Rennes 1, 35042 Rennes, France,

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