Issue 19, 2009
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Chemical Communications

Super-helices self-assembled from a binary system of amphiphilic polypeptideblock copolymers and polypeptide homopolymers†

Chunhua Cai,a   Jiaping Lin,*a   Tao Chen,a   Xiao-Song Wang*b  and  Shaoliang Lina  

* Corresponding authors

a Key Laboratory for Ultrafine Materials of Ministry of Education, School of Materials Science and Engineering, East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai, China
E-mail: jplinlab@online.sh.cn
Fax: +86 21-6425-3539

b School of Chemistry, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK
E-mail: X.S.Wang@Leeds.ac.uk
Fax: +44 113-343-2947

Abstract

We report here a discovery that amphiphilic polypeptide block copolymers and polypeptide homopolymers are able to aggregate together into super-helical structures of rods and rings, in which polypeptide chains form the core and PEG chains form the shell.

Graphical abstract: Super-helices self-assembled from a binary system of amphiphilic polypeptide block copolymers and polypeptide homopolymers

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/B823367E
Article type
Communication
Submitted
05 Jan 2009
Accepted
06 Mar 2009
First published
27 Mar 2009

Chem. Commun., 2009, 2709-2711

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Super-helices self-assembled from a binary system of amphiphilic polypeptide block copolymers and polypeptide homopolymers

C. Cai, J. Lin, T. Chen, X. Wang and S. Lin, Chem. Commun., 2009, 2709 DOI: 10.1039/B823367E

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