On crystal versus fiber formation in dipeptide hydrogelator systems

Langmuir

Volumn 28, Issue 25, 2012, Pages 9797-9806

  Houton, Kelly A ^a   Morris, Kyle L ^b   Chen, Lin ^a   Schmidtmann, Marc ^a   Jones, James T A ^a   Serpell, Louise C ^b   Lloyd, Gareth O ^c   Adams, Dave J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

3-D GROWTH; CRYSTAL PHASE; DI-PEPTIDES; DIPEPTIDE; FIBER FORMATION; GEL PHASE; GELATORS; HYDROGELATION; INTERATOMIC SEPARATION; LOW MOLECULAR WEIGHT; MOLECULAR PACKINGS; STABILIZING INTERACTIONS; STRUCTURAL PACKING; SUPRAMOLECULAR SYNTHONS; X RAY FIBER DIFFRACTION;

NAPHTHALENE; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

PEPTIDES;

DIPEPTIDE; NAPHTHALENE; NAPHTHALENE DERIVATIVE; WATER;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; HYDROGEL; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; DIPEPTIDES; HYDROGELS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; NAPHTHALENES; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; WATER;

EID: 84862835568     PISSN: 07437463     EISSN: 15205827     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/la301371q     Document Type: Article

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