Tuning gelation kinetics and mechanical rigidity of β-hairpin peptide hydrogels via hydrophobic amino acid substitutions

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 6, Issue 16, 2014, Pages 14360-14368

  Chen, Cuixia ^a   Gu, Yanfeng ^a   Deng, Li ^a   Han, Shuyi ^a   Sun, Xing ^a   Chen, Yucan ^a   Lu, Jian R ^b   Xu, Hai ^a  

^a CHINA UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

biomedical scaffold; gel rigidity; gelation kinetics; peptide hydrogel; residue substitution; hairpin peptide

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACIDS; BIOCOMPATIBILITY; CIRCULAR DICHROISM SPECTROSCOPY; DICHROISM; GELATION; HIGH RESOLUTION TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; HYDROGEN BONDS; HYDROPHOBICITY; KINETICS; PEPTIDES; RIGIDITY; SCAFFOLDS (BIOLOGY); SHEAR STRAIN; SHEAR THINNING;

GELATION KINETICS; HYDROPHOBIC AMINO ACIDS; IMMUNOLOGICAL ASSAY; MECHANICAL RIGIDITY; MECHANICAL STIFFNESS; OSCILLATORY RHEOMETRY; PEPTIDE HYDROGELS; SELF-ASSEMBLING PEPTIDES;

HYDROGELS;

HYDROGEL; PEPTIDE;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; CHEMICAL PHENOMENA; CHEMISTRY; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; HYDROGEL;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; HYDROGELS; HYDROPHOBIC AND HYDROPHILIC INTERACTIONS; PEPTIDES;

EID: 84906810021     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/am5036303     Document Type: Article

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