DocumentCode
2221568
Title
Functionalised fibrils for bio-nanotechnology
Author
Gras, Sally L. ; Squires, Adam M. ; Dobson, Christopher M. ; MacPhee, Cait E.
Author_Institution
Dept. of Chem. & Biomolecular Eng., Melbourne Univ.
fYear
2006
fDate
3-7 July 2006
Abstract
Amyloid fibrils offer great potential as nano-materials. Functionalised fibrils assembled from peptides coupled to bioactive ligands interact specifically with cells compared to non-functionalized fibrils, suggesting that these fibrils are also promising bio-scaffolds.
Keywords
biomedical materials; nanobiotechnology; amyloid fibrils; bio-nanotechnology; bio-scaffolds; bioactive ligands; functionalised fibrils; nanomaterials; nonfunctionalized fibrils; Adhesives; Assembly; Bionanotechnology; Displays; In vitro; Nanobioscience; Peptides; Proteins; Self-assembly; Sequences;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, 2006. ICONN '06. International Conference on
Conference_Location
Brisbane, Qld.
Print_ISBN
1-4244-0452-5
Electronic_ISBN
1-4244-0452-5
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/ICONN.2006.340589
Filename
4143369
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