Deciphering the Rules for Amino Acid Co-Assembly Based on Interlayer Distances.

ABSTRACT: Metabolite materials are extremely useful to obtain functional bioinspired assemblies with unique physical properties for various applications in the fields of material science, engineering, and medicine by self-assembly of the simplest biological building blocks. Supramolecular co-assembly has recently emerged as a promising extended approach to further expand the conformational space of metabolite assemblies in terms of structural and functional complexity. Yet, the design of synergistically co-assembled amino acids to produce tailor-made functional architectures is still challenging. Herein, we propose a design rule to predict the supramolecular co-assembly of naturally occurring amino acids based on their interlayer separation distances observed in single crystals. Using diverse experi

SUBMITTER: Bera S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7616932 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature