Designed aromatic homo-dipeptides: Formation of ordered nanostructures and potential nanotechnological applications

Physical Biology

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2006, Pages

  Reches, Meital ^a   Gazit, Ehud ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AROMATIC COMPOUND; DIPEPTIDE; HALIDE; HALOGEN; NAPHTHYL GROUP; NITRO DERIVATIVE; PHENYL GROUP;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL MODIFICATION; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; NANOPARTICLE; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SPECTROSCOPY; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; VIBRATIONAL SPECTROSCOPY;

EID: 33645522802     PISSN: 14783967     EISSN: 14783975     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1478-3975/3/1/S02     Document Type: Article

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