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Peptide Synthesis> | … Experimental section. Materials. The PFK peptide (95% purity) was purchased from GenScript (Piscataway, NJ). Alginate (HF420RBS 70% guluronate, sodium salt, M w = 475 kDa) was a kind gift from FMC Biopolymers (Dramen, Norway) … | Get A Quote |
Hierarchically ordered planar and spherical membranes (sacs) were constructed using amphiphilic and cationic β-sheet peptides that spontaneously assembled together with negatively charged alginate solution. The system was found to form either a fully developed membrane structure with three distinct regions including characteristic perpendicular fibers or a non-fully developed contact layer lacking these standing fibers, depending on the peptide age, membrane geometry and membrane incubation time. The morphological differences were found to strongly depend on fairly-long incubation time frames that influenced both the peptide's intrinsic alignment and the reaction-diffusion process taking place at the interface... More