scholarly journals Refining the Design of Diblock Elastin-Like Polypeptides for Self-Assembly into Nanoparticles

Polymers ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (9) ◽  
pp. 1470
Author(s):  
Michèle Dai ◽  
Evangelos Georgilis ◽  
Guillaume Goudounet ◽  
Bertrand Garbay ◽  
Jan Pille ◽  
...  

Diblock copolymers based-on elastin-like polypeptide (ELP) have the potential to undergo specific phase transitions when thermally stimulated. This ability is especially suitable to form carriers, micellar structures for instance, for delivering active cargo molecules. Here, we report the design and study of an ELP diblock library based on ELP-[M1V3-i]-[I-j]. First, ELP-[M1V3-i]-[I-j] (i = 20, 40, 60; j = 20, 90) that showed a similar self-assembly propensity (unimer-to-aggregate transition) as their related monoblocks ELP-[M1V3-i] and ELP-[I-j]. By selectively oxidizing methionines of ELP-[M1V3-i] within the different diblocks structures, we have been able to access a thermal phase transition with three distinct regimes (unimers, micelles, aggregates) characteristic of well-defined ELP diblocks.

2007 ◽  
Vol 16 (07n08) ◽  
pp. 2241-2247 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. AYAZ AHMAD ◽  
SHAFIQ AHMAD

In this paper the study of existance of non-statistical fluctuations using the method of scaled factorial, Fq, moments (SFMs) has been utilized to probe the distribution of relativistic shower particles produced in 28 Si -emulsion collisions at 14.6 A GeV. The analysis indicates that the anomalous fractal dimension, dq, does not favour the origin of any exotic phenomenon. Finally, our data do not show a clear evidence for the existence of non-thermal phase transitions.


Langmuir ◽  
2007 ◽  
Vol 23 (8) ◽  
pp. 4634-4641 ◽  
Author(s):  
Naohiro Kameta ◽  
Mitsutoshi Masuda ◽  
Hiroyuki Minamikawa ◽  
Toshimi Shimizu

2003 ◽  
Vol 125 (5) ◽  
pp. 237-241 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hitoshi Osawa ◽  
Toshiaki Iwazumi ◽  
Hiroko Tokoro ◽  
Shin-ichi Ohkoshi ◽  
Kazuhito Hashimoto ◽  
...  

Soft Matter ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 10 (41) ◽  
pp. 8224-8228 ◽  
Author(s):  
Min-Jun Gim ◽  
Gohyun Han ◽  
Suk-Won Choi ◽  
Dong Ki Yoon

We have investigated dramatic changes in the thermal phase transition of a liquid-crystalline (LC) blue phase (BP) consisting of bent-core nematogen and chiral dopants under various boundary conditions during cooling from the isotropic phase.


Langmuir ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 32 (26) ◽  
pp. 6691-6700 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhangxin Ye ◽  
Youcheng Li ◽  
Zesheng An ◽  
Peiyi Wu

1998 ◽  
Vol 41 (4) ◽  
pp. 371-376 ◽  
Author(s):  
D Ghosh ◽  
A. K Jafry ◽  
A Deb ◽  
S Sarkar ◽  
R Chattopadhyay ◽  
...  

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