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CHEMISTRY-A EUROPEAN JOURNAL
Volume 22, Issue 46, Pages 16586-16597Publisher
WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH
DOI: 10.1002/chem.201604107
Keywords
diphenylalanine; molecular dynamics; nanostructures; peptide materials; photoluminescence
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- M.I.U.R. under FIRB 'RINAME' [RBAP114AMK]
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Despite the growing literature about diphenylalanine-based peptide materials, it still remains a challenge to delineate the theoretical insight into peptide nanostructure formation and the structural features that could permit materials with enhanced properties to be engineered. Herein, we report the synthesis of a novel peptide building block composed of six phenylalanine residues and eight PEG units, PEG(8)-F6. This aromatic peptide self-assembles in water in stable and well-ordered nanostructures with optoelectronic properties. A variety of techniques, such as fluorescence, FTIR, CD, DLS, SEM, SAXS, and WAXS allowed us to correlate the photoluminescence properties of the self-assembled nanostructures with the structural organization of the peptide building block at the micro- and nanoscale. Finally, a model of hexaphenylalanine in aqueous solution by molecular dynamics simulations is presented to suggest structural and energetic factors controlling the formation of nanostructures.
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