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A matter of taste

A matter of taste NEWS & VIEWS chips containing antibodies or receptor-binding materials, they are all amphiphilic — that is they have domains, because simple binding is only one of the both hydrophilic and hydrophobic parts — and many functions proteins can have, hence these chips self-assemble into well-defined nanofibres with high have very limited potential to study the full extent of aspect ratio and surface area. These nanofibres form enzymatic functional activities. networks containing nanosized hydrophilic cavities that The key to the success of Hamachi’s approach lies in accommodate small clusters of water molecules in a the combination of different building blocks to make space where convection and flow are reduced — much these materials, in a similar way to biological systems — like the small Greek islands that break the waves of the assembling them bit by bit from the bottom up. Aegean sea —thus allowing the protein activities to be A good example is a seashell or a tooth, where very small unhindered. This is in sharp contrast with many amounts of proteins are used to construct the scaffold synthetic and biological polymeric gels that often form that allows inorganic mineral to self-organize into a microfibres and microcavities, and hence http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Nature Materials Springer Journals

A matter of taste

Ball, Philip
Nature Materials , Volume 3 (1) – Jan 1, 2004
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A matter of taste

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NEWS & VIEWS chips containing antibodies or receptor-binding materials, they are all amphiphilic — that is they have domains, because simple binding is only one of the both hydrophilic and hydrophobic parts — and many functions proteins can have, hence these chips self-assemble into well-defined nanofibres with high have very limited potential to study the full extent of aspect ratio and surface area. These nanofibres form enzymatic functional activities. networks containing...
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Springer Journals
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Copyright © 2004 by Nature Publishing Group
Subject
Materials Science; Materials Science, general; Optical and Electronic Materials; Biomaterials; Nanotechnology; Condensed Matter Physics
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1476-1122
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1476-4660
DOI
10.1038/nmat1049
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Abstract

NEWS & VIEWS chips containing antibodies or receptor-binding materials, they are all amphiphilic — that is they have domains, because simple binding is only one of the both hydrophilic and hydrophobic parts — and many functions proteins can have, hence these chips self-assemble into well-defined nanofibres with high have very limited potential to study the full extent of aspect ratio and surface area. These nanofibres form enzymatic functional activities. networks containing nanosized hydrophilic cavities that The key to the success of Hamachi’s approach lies in accommodate small clusters of water molecules in a the combination of different building blocks to make space where convection and flow are reduced — much these materials, in a similar way to biological systems — like the small Greek islands that break the waves of the assembling them bit by bit from the bottom up. Aegean sea —thus allowing the protein activities to be A good example is a seashell or a tooth, where very small unhindered. This is in sharp contrast with many amounts of proteins are used to construct the scaffold synthetic and biological polymeric gels that often form that allows inorganic mineral to self-organize into a microfibres and microcavities, and hence

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Nature Materials – Springer Journals

Published: Jan 1, 2004

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