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Peptoid technology for molecular nanosystems — My review is now online

November 7, 2011

My invited review “Peptoids at the 7th Summit: Toward Macromolecular Systems Engineering” [pdf] kicks off the peptoid special issue of Biopolymers: Peptide Science.
Astoundingly, all the papers are open access.
Here’s the abstract:

Peptoids at the 7th Summit: Toward Macromolecular Systems Engineering
Methods for facile synthesis of extraordinarily diverse peptide-like oligomers have placed peptoids at the center of [...]

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The 7th Peptoid Summit:
Progress in peptoid toolkit development

August 13, 2010

The 7th Peptoid Summit highlighted progress in design technology for one of the most promising toolkits in modular molecular systems engineering.
I’ve outlined the submonomer method for peptoid synthesis as a powerful and convenient way to assemble diverse molecular components, and the recent development of crystalline peptoid nanosheets as a platform for extended atomically-precise structures. The [...]

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Peptoid nanosheets:
A platform for new nanotechnologies

April 22, 2010

Fresh from Ron Zuckerman’s lab at the Molecular Foundry: a new kind of molecular membrane — thin and crystalline — made by self-assembly of peptoid oligomers. As I discussed in an earlier post, peptoids have remarkable potential as building blocks for self-assembled nanosystems. Peptoids are peptide-like structures, but with monomers that can be chosen from [...]

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Peptoids at the Molecular Foundry

December 1, 2008

Last week, I visited Ron Zuckerman at the Molecular Foundry to talk science, meet Ron’s colleagues, and give a seminar on directions for research in molecular system-building. I learned a lot, and the seminar topic seemed to be on-target for the lab, drawing an audience that packed the seminar room.

Peptide

Peptoid
Roughly speaking, ‘R’ = ‘whatever…’

For [...]

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Molecular Foundry Seminar

November 14, 2008

On November 25th, I’ll be heading up north to give a talk at the Molecular Foundry, a nanotechnology research facility at the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, just up the hill from the university. The talk will be on the topic I discussed in my post from a few days ago:
Modular Molecular Composite Nanosystems
Abstract: The next level [...]

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