Looking beyond carbon nanotubes: Polypeptide nanotubes as alternatives?

Journal of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology

Volumn 7, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 2253-2259

  Praveena, G ^a   Kolandaivel, P ^a   Santhanamoorthi, N ^a   Renugopalakrishnan, V ^b,c   Ramakrishna, Seeram ^c  

^a BHARATHIAR UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Band gap; Cyclic peptides; DFT; Nanostructures; Quantum chemical study; Self assembly

Indexed keywords

CYCLIC DIPEPTIDES (CD); DFT CALCULATIONS; EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES; L VALINE (L VAL); L-ALANINE; NANO-STRUCTURED; NANOELECTRONIC APPLICATIONS; NANOTUBULAR STRUCTURES; TUNABLE PROPERTIES;

NANOPORES; NANOSTRUCTURES; NANOTECHNOLOGY; NANOTUBES; POLYPEPTIDES; POROUS MATERIALS; STRUCTURAL PROPERTIES; STRUCTURE (COMPOSITION); SULFUR COMPOUNDS;

CARBON NANOTUBES;

NANOTUBE; PEPTIDE;

CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONFORMATION; CRYSTALLIZATION; FORECASTING; MACROMOLECULE; MATERIALS TESTING; METHODOLOGY; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PARTICLE SIZE; REVIEW; SURFACE PROPERTY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRYSTALLIZATION; FORECASTING; MACROMOLECULAR SUBSTANCES; MATERIALS TESTING; MODELS, CHEMICAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR CONFORMATION; NANOTECHNOLOGY; NANOTUBES; PARTICLE SIZE; PEPTIDES; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

EID: 34548151628     PISSN: 15334880     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1166/jnn.2007.649     Document Type: Article

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