Nature Communications (Jan 2020)

Polypeptide templating for designer hierarchical materials

  • Hui Sun,
  • Benedetto Marelli

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-14257-0
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 13

Abstract

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Despite recent progress in directed assembly of protein molecules into well-defined nanostructures, bridging materials fabrication from nano- to macroscale remains a challenge. Here, using silk fibroin as an example, the authors demonstrate templated crystallization to drive hierarchical materials growth from disordered molecules all the way up to centimeter scale.