Self-Assembly of Peptide-Containing Mesogens: Thermotropic Liquid-Crystalline Properties and Macroscopic Alignment of Amphiphilic Bioconjugates

Authors :: Junya Uchida
Hiroki Eimura
Takashi Kato
Anna Niwa
Source :: Bulletin of the Chemical Society of Japan. 94:1588-1593
Publication Year :: 2021
Publisher :: The Chemical Society of Japan, 2021.
Abstract: Thermotropic liquid crystals having tripeptide moieties are reported. A series of peptide chains including arginine-glycine-aspartic acid (RGD), glycine-glycine-aspartic acid (GGD), and triglycine ...

Subjects :: chemistry.chemical_classification
endocrine system diseases
Chemistry
Liquid crystalline
nutritional and metabolic diseases
Peptide
General Chemistry
Tripeptide
Thermotropic crystal
Crystallography
Liquid crystal
Amphiphile
Self-assembly
hormones, hormone substitutes, and hormone antagonists

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