Self-assembly of silk-collagen-like triblock copolymers resembles a supramolecular living polymerization

ACS Nano

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 133-140

  Beun, Lennart H ^a   Beaudoux, Xavier J ^a   Kleijn, J Mieke ^a   De Wolf, Frits A ^a   Cohen Stuart, Martien A ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

biopolymer; hydrogel; kinetics; pH responsive; protein

Indexed keywords

GENERIC PROCESS; GROWTH CURVES; INITIAL CONCENTRATION; MONODISPERSE; PH VALUE; PH-RESPONSIVE; PSEUDO-FIRST ORDER KINETICS; SELF-ASSEMBLE; TRIBLOCKS;

ALKALINITY; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; BIOPOLYMERS; BLOCK COPOLYMERS; COLLAGEN; DICHROISM; ENZYME KINETICS; GROWTH KINETICS; HYDROGELS; PROTEINS; SELF ASSEMBLY; SILK;

LIVING POLYMERIZATION;

BIOMIMETIC MATERIAL; COLLAGEN; NANOMATERIAL; POLYMER;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; CRYSTALLIZATION; MACROMOLECULE; MATERIALS TESTING; METHODOLOGY; PARTICLE SIZE; SILK; SURFACE PROPERTY; SYNTHESIS; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

BIOMIMETIC MATERIALS; COLLAGEN; CRYSTALLIZATION; MACROMOLECULAR SUBSTANCES; MATERIALS TESTING; MOLECULAR CONFORMATION; NANOSTRUCTURES; PARTICLE SIZE; POLYMERS; SILK; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

EID: 84856183118     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn203092u     Document Type: Article

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