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Self-assembly

Materials from a peptide soup

Nature Nanotechnology volume 11, pages 920–921 (2016)Cite this article

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Small dipeptide fragments enzymatically combine and split to form sequences that self-assemble into nanomaterials.

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Figure 1: Dynamic peptide libraries.

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