Effect of solvent on the self-assembly of dialanine and diphenylalanine peptides

Journal of Physical Chemistry B

Volumn 117, Issue 15, 2013, Pages 3962-3975

  Rissanou, Anastassia N ^a,b   Georgilis, Evangelos ^a   Kasotakis, Emmanouil ^a   Mitraki, Anna ^a,b   Harmandaris, Vagelis ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^b INSTITUTE OF COMPUTER SCIENCE   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; PEPTIDES;

ATOMISTIC MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; DIFFERENT SOLVENTS; EFFECT OF SOLVENTS; EXPERIMENTAL DATUM; EXPERIMENTAL OBSERVATION; SELF ASSEMBLED STRUCTURES; SIMULATION PREDICTION; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE;

SOLVENTS;

EID: 84876469199     PISSN: 15206106     EISSN: 15205207     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jp311795b     Document Type: Article

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