Nanotechnology: Peptides as biological semiconductors
Abstract
A simple peptide that assembles into desirable nanoscale structures is a striking example of how the whole can be greater than the sum of its parts. What's more, the assembly process is controllably reversible.
- Publication:
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Nature
- Pub Date:
- November 2010
- DOI:
- 10.1038/468516a
- Bibcode:
- 2010Natur.468..516H