Self-assembled organic nanostructures with metallic-like stiffness

Angewandte Chemie - International Edition

Volumn 49, Issue 51, 2010, Pages 9939-9942

  Adler Abramovich, Lihi ^a   Kol, Nitzan ^b   Yanai, Inbal ^a   Barlam, David ^c   Shneck, Roni Z ^c   Gazit, Ehud ^a   Rousso, Itay ^b  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^c BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

mechanical strength; nanostructures; nanotechnology; peptides; self assembly

Indexed keywords

AFM; BUILDING BLOCKES; COMPOSITE BIOMATERIALS; DIPEPTIDE; MECHANICAL STRENGTH; ORGANIC MATERIALS; ORGANIC NANOSTRUCTURES; SELF-ASSEMBLED; YOUNG'S MODULUS;

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS; BIOMATERIALS; PEPTIDES; SELF ASSEMBLY;

NANOSTRUCTURES;

AROMATIC AMINO ACID; BIOMATERIAL; NANOMATERIAL; ORGANIC COMPOUND; PEPTIDE;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; YOUNG MODULUS;

AMINO ACIDS, AROMATIC; BIOCOMPATIBLE MATERIALS; ELASTIC MODULUS; NANOSTRUCTURES; ORGANIC CHEMICALS; PEPTIDES;

EID: 78650302532     PISSN: 14337851     EISSN: 15213773     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/anie.201002037     Document Type: Article

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