Water ordering controls the dynamic equilibrium of micelle–fibre formation in self-assembly of peptide amphiphiles

The role of water in the kinetics of the self-assembly process of amphiphilic peptides still remains unknown. Sankaranarayanan et al. have shown through computational study that water has a dual nature when dictating the mechanism and dynamics of self-assembly of peptide amphiphiles.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Sanket A. Deshmukh, Lee A. Solomon, Ganesh Kamath, H. Christopher Fry, Subramanian K. R. S. Sankaranarayanan
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2016-08-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms12367