Assembly of Triblock Amphiphilic Peptides into One-Dimensional Aggregates and Network Formation

Journal of Physical Chemistry B

Volumn 120, Issue 39, 2016, Pages 10243-10257

  Ozgur, Beytullah ^a   Sayar, Mehmet ^a  

^a KOÇ UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGGREGATES; ASSEMBLY; BIOMATERIALS; CHEMICAL BONDS; HYDROGEN BONDS; HYDROPHOBICITY; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULES; SCALES (WEIGHING INSTRUMENTS);

ALTERNATIVE STRUCTURE; ATOMISTIC SIMULATIONS; DIFFERENT LENGTH SCALE; HIERARCHICAL ASSEMBLIES; INTER-MOLECULAR FORCES; INTERMOLECULAR INTERACTIONS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATIONS; POROUS NETWORK STRUCTURES;

PEPTIDES;

PEPTIDE; PROTEIN AGGREGATE; SURFACTANT;

CHEMISTRY; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; SYNTHESIS;

MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATION; PEPTIDES; PROTEIN AGGREGATES; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; SURFACE-ACTIVE AGENTS;

EID: 84990851651     PISSN: 15206106     EISSN: 15205207     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.6b07545     Document Type: Article

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