Water ordering controls the dynamic equilibrium of micelle–fibre formation in self-assembly of peptide amphiphiles

Sanket A. Deshmukh; Lee A. Solomon; Ganesh Kamath; H. Christopher Fry; Subramanian K. R. S. Sankaranarayanan

doi:10.1038/ncomms12367

Nature Communications (Aug 2016)

Water ordering controls the dynamic equilibrium of micelle–fibre formation in self-assembly of peptide amphiphiles

Sanket A. Deshmukh,
Lee A. Solomon,
Ganesh Kamath,
H. Christopher Fry,
Subramanian K. R. S. Sankaranarayanan

Affiliations

Sanket A. Deshmukh: Center for Nanoscale Materials, Argonne National Laboratory
Lee A. Solomon: Center for Nanoscale Materials, Argonne National Laboratory
Ganesh Kamath: Department of Chemistry, University of Missouri-Columbia
H. Christopher Fry: Center for Nanoscale Materials, Argonne National Laboratory
Subramanian K. R. S. Sankaranarayanan: Center for Nanoscale Materials, Argonne National Laboratory

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms12367
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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The role of water in the kinetics of the self-assembly process of amphiphilic peptides still remains unknown. Sankaranarayanan et al. have shown through computational study that water has a dual nature when dictating the mechanism and dynamics of self-assembly of peptide amphiphiles.

Published in Nature Communications

ISSN: 2041-1723 (Online)
Publisher: Nature Portfolio
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Science
Website: https://www.nature.com/ncomms/

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