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SUBMITTER: Fears KP
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6173727 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Fears Kenan P KP Kolel-Veetil Manoj K MK Barlow Daniel E DE Bernstein Noam N So Christopher R CR Wahl Kathryn J KJ Li Xianfeng X Kulp John L JL Latour Robert A RA Clark Thomas D TD
Nature communications 20181005 1
Organisms have evolved biomaterials with an extraordinary convergence of high mechanical strength, toughness, and elasticity. In contrast, synthetic materials excel in stiffness or extensibility, and a combination of the two is necessary to exceed the performance of natural biomaterials. We bridge this materials property gap through the side-chain-to-side-chain polymerization of cyclic β-peptide rings. Due to their strong dipole moments, the rings self-assemble into rigid nanorods, stabilized by ...[more]