Chemical Society Seminar: Darrin Pochan- Biomolecules for non-biological things: Peptide ‘Bundlemer’ design for model nanoparticle creation and hierarchical solution assembly

A solution-assembled system comprised of computationally designed coiled coil bundle motifs, also known as ‘bundlemers’, will be discussed as model colloidal nanoparticle systems for the formation of hierarchical materials. The molecules and nanostructures are non-natural amino acid sequences and provide opportunities for controlled solution behavior and arbitrary nanostructure creation with peptides.