Uniaxially Oriented Peptide Crystals for Active Optical Waveguiding

摘要

Oriented organization or crystallization is ubiquitous in biological systems such as filamentous viruses, membrane proteins (e.g. proteorhodopsin), annulus fibrosus, and actin filaments. Inspired by the elegant biological world, researchers can delicately manipulate a wide range of biological and synthetic building blocks into ordered superstructures with precisely controlled dimensions by using a bottom-up self-assembly approach.