Super-helices self-assembled from a binary system of amphiphilic polypeptide block copolymers and polypeptide homopolymers

Abstract

We report here a discovery that amphiphilic polypeptide block copolymers and polypeptide homopolymers are able to aggregate together into super-helical structures of rods and rings, in which polypeptide chains form the core and PEG chains form the shell.