Peptides with selective affinity for carbon nanotubes

Nature Materials

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 196-200

  Wang, Siqun ^a   Humphreys, Elen S ^b   Chung, Sung Yoon ^b   Delduco, Daniel F ^a   Lustig, Steven R ^a   Wang, Hong ^a   Parker, Kimberley N ^a   Rizzo, Nancy W ^a   Subramoney, Shekhar ^a   Chiang, Yet Ming ^b   Jagota, Anand ^a  

^a DUPONT COMPANY   (United States)

^b Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON NANOTUBES; CHEMICAL BONDS; CONFORMATIONS; HYDROPHOBICITY;

BINDING SPECIFICITY; MICROSPHERES; PEPTIDES; PHAGE DISPLAY; SELECTIVE AFFINITY;

AMINO ACIDS;

CARBON NANOTUBE; MICROSPHERE; PEPTIDE; PEPTIDE LIBRARY;

ARTICLE; METABOLISM; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; SYNTHESIS;

MICROSPHERES; NANOTUBES, CARBON; PEPTIDE LIBRARY; PEPTIDES; PROTEIN CONFORMATION;

EID: 0037363955     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat833     Document Type: Article

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