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Peptide Mediated Co-Assembly Of Porphyrin: Towards Sustainable Biomaterials For Light Harvesting And Catalysis, Wsm Nadeesha K. Wijerathne
Peptide Mediated Co-Assembly Of Porphyrin: Towards Sustainable Biomaterials For Light Harvesting And Catalysis, Wsm Nadeesha K. Wijerathne
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The diverse molecular functions of naturally occurring biomaterials designed from proteins are fundamentally based on a set of conserved building blocks, namely the 20 gene coded amino acids. The supramolecular structures and functions of proteins dictates by the self-assembly, where the complexity of proteins arise from a large number of amino acids. Generation of biomimetic systems that resemble the structures and functions of proteins is of great interest yet challenging due to the tremendous complexity of the natural systems. It is important to investigate alternative strategies to design much simpler systems that exhibit the same or similar function as proteins. …