Bioinspired Amino Acid Based Materials in Bionanotechnology: From Minimalistic Building Blocks and Assembly Mechanism to Applications

Y Wang, S Rencus-Lazar, H Zhou, Y Yin, X Jiang… - ACS …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Inspired by natural hierarchical self-assembly of proteins and peptides, amino acids, as the
basic building units, have been shown to self-assemble to form highly ordered structures …

Bicomponent supramolecular architectures at the vacuum–solid interface

X Bouju, C Mattioli, G Franc, A Pujol… - Chemical …, 2017 - ACS Publications
This review aims at giving the readers the basic concepts needed to understand two-
dimensional bimolecular organizations at the vacuum–solid interface. The first part …

Structural and electronic characterization of self-assembled molecular nanoarchitectures by X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy

A Gulino - Analytical and bioanalytical chemistry, 2013 - Springer
Molecular monolayers and similar nanoarchitectures are indicative of the promising future of
nanotechnology. Therefore, many scientists recently devoted their efforts to the synthesis …

Self‐Assembly of Tyrosine into Controlled Supramolecular Nanostructures

C Ménard‐Moyon, V Venkatesh… - … A European Journal, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
In the context of designing novel amino acid nanostructures, the capacity of tyrosine alone to
form well‐ordered structures under different conditions was explored. It was observed that …

Adsorption and self-assembly of bio-organic molecules at model surfaces: A route towards increased complexity

D Costa, CM Pradier, F Tielens, L Savio - Surface Science Reports, 2015 - Elsevier
Understanding the bio-physical–chemical interactions at nanostructured biointerfaces and
the assembly mechanisms of so-called hybrid nano-composites is nowadays a key issue for …

Two-dimensional functional molecular nanoarchitectures–Complementary investigations with scanning tunneling microscopy and X-ray spectroscopy

F Klappenberger - Progress in surface science, 2014 - Elsevier
Functional molecular nanoarchitectures (FMNs) are highly relevant for the development of
future nanotechnology devices. Profound knowledge about the atomically controlled …

l-Cysteine on Ag(111): A Combined STM and X-ray Spectroscopy Study of Anchorage and Deprotonation

S Fischer, AC Papageorgiou, M Marschall… - The Journal of …, 2012 - ACS Publications
Thiols adsorbed on noble metals are prominent model systems for self-assembly and
nanotechnology research. l-cysteine is the only proteinogenic amino acid containing a thiol …

Clarifying the adsorption of triphenylamine on Au (111): filling the HOMO–LUMO gap

T Zhang, PHW Svensson, IE Brumboiu… - The Journal of …, 2022 - ACS Publications
In this article, we analyze the electronic structure modifications of triphenylamine (TPA), a
well-known electron donor molecule widely used in photovoltaics and optoelectronics, upon …

Chemical evolution of Pt–Zn nanoalloys dressed in oleylamine

A Zakhtser, A Naitabdi, R Benbalagh, F Rochet… - ACS …, 2020 - ACS Publications
We report on the shape, composition (from Pt95Zn5 to Pt77Zn23), and surface chemistry of
Pt–Zn nanoparticles obtained by reduction of precursors M2+ (acac) 2–(M2+: Pt2+ and …

Self-assembly of aromatic amino acids: a molecular dynamics study

S Uyaver, HW Hernandez… - Physical Chemistry …, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
The self assembly processes of aromatic amino acids, phenylalanine, tyrosine, and
tryptophan have been simulated and were observed to form fibril-like aggregates linked to …