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Electrostatic control of thickness and stiffness in a designed protein fiber (2008)
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Papapostolou, D., Bromley, E., Bano, C., & Woolfson, D. (2008). Electrostatic control of thickness and stiffness in a designed protein fiber. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 130(15), 5124-5130. https://doi.org/10.1021/ja0778444

Attempts to design peptide-based fibers from first principles test our understanding of protein folding and assembly, and potentially provide routes to new biomaterials. Several groups have presented such designs based on a-helical and beta-strand bu... Read More about Electrostatic control of thickness and stiffness in a designed protein fiber.

Potassium intercalation of carbon onions 'opened' by carbon dioxide treatment (2008)
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Butenko, Y. V., Chakraborty, A., Peltekis, N., Krishnamurthy, S., Dhanak, V., Hunt, M., & Siller, L. (2008). Potassium intercalation of carbon onions 'opened' by carbon dioxide treatment. Carbon, 46(8), 1133-1140. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.carbon.2008.04.012

The potassium intercalation of onion-like carbon (OLC) samples consisting of aggregates of carbon onions is studied with photoemission spectroscopy. OLC samples were initially prepared by annealing nanodiamonds (3-20 nm in diameter) at 1800 K in vacu... Read More about Potassium intercalation of carbon onions 'opened' by carbon dioxide treatment.

MagicWand: A single, designed peptide that assembles to stable, ordered alpha-helical fibers (2008)
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Gribbon, C., Channon, K., Zhang, W., Banwell, E., Bromley, E., Chaudhuri, J., …Woolfson, D. (2008). MagicWand: A single, designed peptide that assembles to stable, ordered alpha-helical fibers. Biochemistry, 47(39), 10365-10371

We describe a straightforward single-peptide design that self-assembles into extended and thickened nano-to-mesoscale fibers of remarkable stability and order. The basic chassis of the design is the well-understood dimeric a-helical coiled-coil motif... Read More about MagicWand: A single, designed peptide that assembles to stable, ordered alpha-helical fibers.