A5053868152- Supramolecular Self-Assembly in Materials
- Chemical Synthesis and Analysis
- Polydiacetylene-based materials and applications
- Lipid Membrane Structure and Behavior
- Crystallization and Solubility Studies
- X-ray Diffraction in Crystallography
- Luminescence and Fluorescent Materials
- Counseling Practices and Supervision
- Education and Islamic Studies
- Amino Acid Enzymes and Metabolism
- Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology
- Photochromic and Fluorescence Chemistry
- Modular Robots and Swarm Intelligence
- Pickering emulsions and particle stabilization
University of Strathclyde
2013-2022
Virginia Commonwealth University
1983
Melanins are a family of heterogeneous polymeric pigments that provide ultraviolet (UV) light protection, structural support, coloration, and free radical scavenging. Formed by oxidative oligomerization catecholic small molecules, the physical properties melanins influenced covalent noncovalent disorder. We report use tyrosine-containing tripeptides as tunable precursors for pigments. In these structures, phenols presented in (supra-)molecular context dictated positions amino acids peptide...
A series of tripeptides is shown to form emulsions with sequence tunable properties. Using a combination simulations and experiments, it that two types oil-in-water may be produced, either forming stable interfacial nanofiber networks remarkable stability, or more conventional surfactant-like monolayers. As service our authors readers, this journal provides supporting information supplied by the authors. Such materials are peer reviewed re-organized for online delivery, but not copy-edited...
Peptide co-assembly is of interest for the development functional supramolecular biomaterials. Herein, computational simulations were combined with experimental validation to aid design and understanding cooperative a structure-forming tripeptide (FFD) copper-binding (GHK) leading hydrogel formation in response complexation copper ions.
Research findings suggest that (a) “religious” clients are less likely to benefit from counseling (more dropouts, beneficial change) than “nonreligious” and (b) successful usually results in value changes by clients. It was hypothesized both of these might be due secular religious counselors setting different goals for potentially In this study, explicitly Christian or settings, on professional student levels (n = 96), completed questionnaires rating their a fictitious client who denied the...
We demonstrate the preparation of peptide gel microparticles that are emulsified and stabilized by SiO2 nanoparticles. The gels composed aromatic amphiphiles 9-fluorenylmethoxycarbonyldiphenylalanine (Fmoc-FF) coassembled with Fmoc-amino acids different functional groups (S: serine; D: aspartic acid; K: lysine; Y: tyrosine). phase provides a highly hydrated matrix, self-assembly endows matrix tunable chemical environments which may be exploited to support stabilize proteins. use Pickering...
In this work, we describe the development of a computational screening approach for tripeptide-dipeptide co-assembly. Studies are carried out both in water and oil–water mixtures, to evaluate possible candidates that give rise hydrogels or more stable emulsions, respectively, through nanofibre formation. The results design rules identification promising systems numerous types soft materials. possibility achieving innovative functional materials co-assembly tripeptides dipeptides is studied....
Oil in water emulsions are an important class of soft material that used the food, cosmetic, and biomedical industries. These materials formed through use emulsifiers able to stabilize oil droplets water. Historically have been developed from lipids or large biomolecules such as proteins. However, ability short peptides, which favorable degradability toxicity profiles is seen attractive alternative. In this work, we demonstrate it possible design (tetra) peptides tunability (i.e., surface...