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Chemical Communications

A designer peptide as a template for growing Au nanoclusters†

Roberto de la Rica,*a   Lesley W. Chow,a   Christine-Maria Horejs,a   Manuel Mazo,a   Ciro Chiappini,a   E. Thomas Pashuck,a   Ronit Bittonb  and  Molly M. Stevens*a  

* Corresponding authors

a Department of Materials, Department of Bioengineering and Institute of Biomedical Engineering, Imperial College London, Exhibition Road, London, SW7 2AZ, UK
E-mail: m.stevens@imperial.ac.uk, roberto.delarica@gmail.com

b Department of Chemical Engineering and the Ilze Katz Institute for Nanoscale Science & Technology, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva 84105, Israel

Abstract

A peptide was designed to generate a sub-nanometric template that guides the growth of fluorescent gold nanoclusters. The peptide was endorsed with nucleating moieties and a three-dimensional structure that arrests the growth of ultrasmall nanoparticles. The nanoclusters are not cytotoxic and can be found in the cytosol of cells.

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/C4CC03240C
Article type
Communication
Submitted
30 Apr 2014
Accepted
21 Jul 2014
First published
21 Jul 2014

Chem. Commun., 2014,50, 10648-10650

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A designer peptide as a template for growing Au nanoclusters

R. de la Rica, L. W. Chow, C. Horejs, M. Mazo, C. Chiappini, E. T. Pashuck, R. Bitton and M. M. Stevens, Chem. Commun., 2014, 50, 10648 DOI: 10.1039/C4CC03240C

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