One-pot crystalline ZnO nanorod growth in mineralizing peptide gels.

ABSTRACT: A new biomimetic approach for the one-pot synthesis of ZnO nanorods at neutral pH and room temperature is introduced; self-assembly of the ZnO-mineralzing peptides (CN111, PAGLQVGFAVEV-GGGSC) with Zn ions as bundles of nanofibers in the gel form leads to the growth of ZnO nanorod (NRD) inside the gel. This new nanomaterial synthesis may open a new strategy by using the catalytic peptide gels as nanomaterial reactors.

SUBMITTER: Anjia L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6801111 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature