A short peptide hydrogel with high stiffness induced by 310-helices to beta-sheet transition in water

• Main Authors: Hiew, Shu Hui, Mohanram, Harini, Ling, Lulu, Guo, Jingjing, Sánchez-Ferrer, Antoni, Shi, Xiangyan, Pervushin, Konstantin, Mu, Yuguang, Mezzenga, Raffaele, Miserez, Ali
• Other Authors: School of Materials Science & Engineering
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2020
• Subjects: Materials Science and Engineering; Engineering::Materials; β‐sheet Transition; Molecular Dynamics (MD) Simulations
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/138702; https://doi.org/10.21979/N9/7OITQJ
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Biological gels generally require polymeric chains that produce long-lived phys- ical entanglements. Low molecular weight colloids offer an alternative to macro- molecular gels, but often require ad-hoc synthetic procedures. Here, a short biomimetic peptide composed of eight amino acid residues deri...