Free-energy landscape for peptide amphiphile self-assembly: Stepwise versus continuous assembly mechanisms

Journal of Physical Chemistry B

Volumn 117, Issue 45, 2013, Pages 14059-14064

  Yu, Tao ^a   Schatz, George C ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FREE-ENERGY LANDSCAPE; FUNCTIONAL NANOSTRUCTURES; INTERMEDIATE STRUCTURES; NANO-FIBER STRUCTURE; PEPTIDE AMPHIPHILES; REACTION COORDINATES; SELF ASSEMBLY PROCESS; THERMODYNAMIC FUNCTIONS;

ASSEMBLY; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; FREE ENERGY; POLYPEPTIDES;

SELF ASSEMBLY;

NANOFIBER; PEPTIDE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; KINETICS; METABOLISM; THERMODYNAMICS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; KINETICS; NANOFIBERS; PEPTIDES; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 84887956341     PISSN: 15206106     EISSN: 15205207     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jp409305e     Document Type: Article

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