Silk-inspired low-molecular-weight organogelator

Langmuir

Volumn 22, Issue 18, 2006, Pages 7793-7797

  Escuder, Beatriu ^a   Miravet, Juan F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT JAUME I   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL BONDS; FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; ORGANIC SOLVENTS; POLYPEPTIDES; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SELF ASSEMBLY; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

CIRCULAR DICHROISM; ORGANOGELATOR; SECONDARY STRUCTURE; TETRAPEPTIDE;

GELS;

EID: 33748524843     PISSN: 07437463     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/la060499w     Document Type: Article

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