Aromatic peptide amphiphiles are gaining popularity as building blocks for the bottom-up
fabrication of nanomaterials, including gels. These materials combine the simplicity of small …

Hydrogels are unique supramolecular solid-like assemblies composed mainly of water
molecules that are held by molecular networks. Physical hydrogels that are formed by a set …

Amino acids and short peptides modified with the 9-fluorenylmethyloxycarbonyl (Fmoc)
group possess eminent self-assembly features and show distinct potential for applications …

Life's diverse molecular functions are largely based on only a small number of highly
conserved building blocks–the twenty canonical amino acids. These building blocks are …

Self assembly of small molecules in complex supramolecular structures provides a new
avenue in the development of materials for drug delivery applications. Owing to the low …

Nature is an important inspirational source for scientists, and presents complex and elegant
examples of adaptive and intelligent systems created by self-assembly. Significant effort has …

We demonstrate the use of dipeptide amphiphiles that, by hand shaking of a biphasic
solvent system for a few seconds, form emulsions that remain stable for months through the …

Antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) are considered as potential antibiotic substitutes because of
their potent activities. Previous studies mainly focused on the effects of peptide charges and …

Self-assembly peptide-based hydrogels are well known and popular in biomedical
applications due to the fact that they are readily controllable and have biocompatibility …

We demonstrate the self-assembly of bola-amphiphile-type conjugates of dipeptides and
perylene bisimide (PBI) in water and other polar solvents. Depending on the nature of the …