Intramolecular structure and dynamics in computationally designed peptide-based polymers displaying tunable chain stiffness
Journal Article
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· Physical Review Materials
- Univ. of Delaware, Newark, DE (United States); National Inst. of Standards and Technology (NIST), Gaithersburg, MD (United States); University of Delaware
- Univ. of Delaware, Newark, DE (United States)
- Univ. of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA (United States)
- National Inst. of Standards and Technology (NIST), Gaithersburg, MD (United States)
- Univ. of Delaware, Newark, DE (United States); National Inst. of Standards and Technology (NIST), Gaithersburg, MD (United States); Danish Technological Institute, TÃ¥strup (Denmark)
Here, polymers assembled using computationally designed coiled coil bundlemers display tunable stiffness via control of interbundlemer covalent connectivity as confirmed using small-angle neutron scattering. Neutron spin echo spectroscopy reveals that rigid rod polymers show a decay rate Γ~Q2 (Q is the scattering vector) expected of straight cylinders. Semirigid polymers assembled using bundlemers linked via 4-armed organic linker show flexible segmental dynamics at mid-Q and Γ~Q2 behavior at high Q. The results give insight into linker flexibility-dependent interbundlemer dynamics in the hybrid polymers.
- Research Organization:
- National Inst. of Standards and Technology (NIST), Gaithersburg, MD (United States); Univ. of Delaware, Newark, DE (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- National Science Foundation (NSF); USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES). Materials Sciences & Engineering Division
- Grant/Contract Number:
- SC0019282; SC0019355
- OSTI ID:
- 1819311
- Journal Information:
- Physical Review Materials, Journal Name: Physical Review Materials Journal Issue: 9 Vol. 5; ISSN 2475-9953
- Publisher:
- American Physical Society (APS)Copyright Statement
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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