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SUBMITTER: Eckshtain-Levi M
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4773432 | biostudies-literature | 2016
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Nature communications 20160226
Chirality-induced spin selectivity is a recently-discovered effect, which results in spin selectivity for electrons transmitted through chiral peptide monolayers. Here, we use this spin selectivity to probe the organization of self-assembled α-helix peptide monolayers and examine the relation between structural and spin transfer phenomena. We show that the α-helix structure of oligopeptides based on alanine and aminoisobutyric acid is transformed to a more linear one upon cooling. This process i ...[more]