Issue 5, 2017
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Materials Chemistry Frontiers

Supramolecular silk from a peptide hydrogel†

Jie Zhan,‡ab   Yanbin Cai,‡ab   Shenglu Ji,ab   Yuna Shang,ab   Jie Gao*b  and  Zhimou Yang*ab  

* Corresponding authors

a College of Life Sciences, Nankai University, Tianjin 300071, P. R. China
E-mail: yangzm@nankai.edu.cn

b State Key Laboratory of Medicinal Chemical Biology, Key Laboratory of Bioactive Materials, Ministry of Education, Nankai University, Tianjin 300071, P. R. China
E-mail: chemgaojie@nankai.edu.cn

Abstract

A macroscopic silk-like fiber can be drawn directly from a hydrogel self-assembled from peptides, which offers an easy and versatile method for generating materials with hierarchically ordered structures over different scales and extends the utility of peptide hydrogels.

Graphical abstract: Supramolecular silk from a peptide hydrogel

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/C6QM00233A
Article type
Research Article
Submitted
26 Sep 2016
Accepted
10 Nov 2016
First published
07 Dec 2016

Mater. Chem. Front., 2017,1, 911-915

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Supramolecular silk from a peptide hydrogel

J. Zhan, Y. Cai, S. Ji, Y. Shang, J. Gao and Z. Yang, Mater. Chem. Front., 2017, 1, 911 DOI: 10.1039/C6QM00233A

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