Nature Communications (Sep 2016)
A switchable self-assembling and disassembling chiral system based on a porphyrin-substituted phenylalanine–phenylalanine motif
- Georgios Charalambidis,
- Evangelos Georgilis,
- Manas K. Panda,
- Christopher E. Anson,
- Annie K. Powell,
- Stephen Doyle,
- David Moss,
- Tobias Jochum,
- Peter N. Horton,
- Simon J. Coles,
- Mathieu Linares,
- David Beljonne,
- Jean-Valère Naubron,
- Jonas Conradt,
- Heinz Kalt,
- Anna Mitraki,
- Athanassios G. Coutsolelos,
- Teodor Silviu Balaban
Affiliations
- Georgios Charalambidis
- Department of Chemistry, Bioinorganic Chemistry Laboratory, University of Crete
- Evangelos Georgilis
- Department of Materials Science and Technology, University of Crete, Vassilika Vouton
- Manas K. Panda
- Department of Chemistry, Bioinorganic Chemistry Laboratory, University of Crete
- Christopher E. Anson
- Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Institute of Inorganic Chemistry
- Annie K. Powell
- Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Institute of Inorganic Chemistry
- Stephen Doyle
- Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institute for Synchrotron Radiation and ANKA
- David Moss
- Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institute for Synchrotron Radiation and ANKA
- Tobias Jochum
- Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institute for Synchrotron Radiation and ANKA
- Peter N. Horton
- School of Chemistry, EPSRC National Crystallography Service, University of Southampton
- Simon J. Coles
- School of Chemistry, EPSRC National Crystallography Service, University of Southampton
- Mathieu Linares
- Department of Physics, Chemistry and Biology, Linköping University
- David Beljonne
- Département de Chimie, Chimie des Matériaux Nouveaux and Centre d'Innovation et de Recherche en Matériaux Polymères, Université de Mons—UMONS/Materia Nova
- Jean-Valère Naubron
- Aix Marseille Université, CNRS FR 1739, Spectropole, Avenue Escadrille Normandie Niemen
- Jonas Conradt
- Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Institute of Applied Physics and Center for Functional Nanostructures (CFN)
- Heinz Kalt
- Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Institute of Applied Physics and Center for Functional Nanostructures (CFN)
- Anna Mitraki
- Department of Materials Science and Technology, University of Crete, Vassilika Vouton
- Athanassios G. Coutsolelos
- Department of Chemistry, Bioinorganic Chemistry Laboratory, University of Crete
- Teodor Silviu Balaban
- Aix Marseille Univ, CNRS, Centrale Marseille, Institut des Sciences Moléculaires de Marseille (iSm2), UMR 7313, Chirosciences, Avenue Escadrille Normandie Niemen
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms12657
- Journal volume & issue
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Vol. 7,
no. 1
pp. 1 – 11
Abstract
Artificial light-harvesting systems cannot self-assemble into photon-capturing structures that can reversibly switch into an inactive state. Here, the authors describe a simple and robust dipeptide construct which self-assembles to fibrils, platelets or nanospheres with varying optical properties.
