Nanotubes, Nanorods and Nanospheres from Peptide/Polymer Conjugates Self-Assembly

摘要

Modern techniques of polymerisation have revolutionalised the chemists?ability to design functional materials with tailored properties, but these synthetic capabilities are still far outstripped by natures. As scientists try to synthesise more complex materials, the challenge to do so by traditional synthetic methods increases significantly and recent research has taken inspiration from the way that nature builds well defined and complex structures through the self assembly of smaller molecules. This bottom-up approach has proved to be versatile and the most promising route to design materials with structures controlled at the nanoscale.