Imperial College London

Professor Molly Stevens

Faculty of EngineeringDepartment of Materials

Professor of Biomedical Materials and Regenerative Medicine
 
 
 
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Contact

 

+44 (0)20 7594 6804m.stevens

 
 
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Location

 

208Royal School of MinesSouth Kensington Campus

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Summary

 

Publications

Citation

BibTex format

@article{Lin:2017:10.1021/jacs.7b06591,
author = {Lin, Y and Thomas, MR and Gelmi, A and Leonardo, V and Pashuck, ET and Maynard, SA and Wang, Y and Stevens, MM},
doi = {10.1021/jacs.7b06591},
journal = {Journal of the American Chemical Society},
pages = {13592--13595},
title = {Self-assembled 2D Free-Standing Janus Nanosheets with Single-Layer Thickness},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/jacs.7b06591},
volume = {139},
year = {2017}
}

RIS format (EndNote, RefMan)

TY  - JOUR
AB - We report the thermodynamically controlled growth of solution-processable and free-standing nanosheets via peptide assembly in two dimensions. By taking advantage of self-sorting between peptide β-strands and hydrocarbon chains, we have demonstrated the formation of Janus 2D structures with single-layer thickness, which enable a predetermined surface heterofunctionalization. A controlled 2D-to-1D morphological transition was achieved by subtly adjusting the intermolecular forces. These nanosheets provide an ideal substrate for the engineering of guest components (e.g., proteins and nanoparticles), where enhanced enzyme activity was observed. We anticipate that sequence-specific programmed peptides will offer promise as design elements for 2D assemblies with face-selective functionalization.
AU - Lin,Y
AU - Thomas,MR
AU - Gelmi,A
AU - Leonardo,V
AU - Pashuck,ET
AU - Maynard,SA
AU - Wang,Y
AU - Stevens,MM
DO - 10.1021/jacs.7b06591
EP - 13595
PY - 2017///
SN - 1520-5126
SP - 13592
TI - Self-assembled 2D Free-Standing Janus Nanosheets with Single-Layer Thickness
T2 - Journal of the American Chemical Society
UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/jacs.7b06591
UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/50617
VL - 139
ER -