Modulation of Peptide Based Nano-Assemblies with Electric and Magnetic Fields.

ABSTRACT: Peptide based nano-assemblies with their self-organizing ability has shown lot of promise due to their high degree of thermal and chemical stability, for biomaterial fabrication. Developing an effective way to control the organization of these structures is important for fabricating application-oriented materials at the molecular level. The present study reports the impact of electric and magnetic field-mediated perturbation of the self-assembly phenomenon, upon the chemical and structural properties of diphenylalanine assembly. Our studies show that, electric field effectively arrests aggregation and self-assembly formation, while the molecule is allowed to anneal in the presence of applied electric fields of varying magnitudes, both AC and DC. The electric field exposure also modulated t

SUBMITTER: Pandey G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5457452 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature