ArticleMaterials (Basel, Switzerland)2023
Nanostructured Electrospun Fibers with Self-Assembled Cyclo-L-Tryptophan-L-Tyrosine Dipeptide as Piezoelectric Materials and Optical Second Harmonic Generators.
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- Piezoelectric amino acids and peptides: Mechanisms, molecular engineering, and biomedical applications.iScience · 2026Review
- Self-Assembly and Crystal Structure of Boc-Protected Dipeptides Containing L-Phenylalanine and L-Tyrosine.Materials (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Polycaprolactone/graphene oxide/acellular matrix nanofibrous scaffolds with antioxidant and promyelinating features for the treatment of peripheral demyelinating diseases.Journal of materials science. Materials in medicine · 2023Article
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The potential use of nanostructured dipeptide self-assemblies in materials science for energy harvesting devices is a highly sought-after area of research. Specifically, aromatic cyclo-dipeptides containing tryptophan have garnered attention due to their wide-bandgap semiconductor properties, high mechanical rigidity, photoluminescence, and nonlinear optical behavior. In this study, we present the development of a hybrid system comprising biopolymer electrospun fibers incorporated with the chiral cyclo-dipeptide L-Tryptophan-L-Tyrosine. The resulting nanofibers are wide-bandgap semiconductors (bandgap energy 4.0 eV) consisting of self-assembled nanotubes embedded within a polymer matrix, exhibiting intense blue photoluminescence. Moreover, the cyclo-dipeptide L-Tryptophan-L-Tyrosine incorporated into polycaprolactone nanofibers displays a strong effective second harmonic generation signal of 0.36 pm/V and shows notable piezoelectric properties with a high effective coefficient of 22 pCN-1, a piezoelectric voltage coefficient of geff=1.2 VmN-1 and a peak power density delivered by the nanofiber mat of 0.16μWcm-2. These hybrid systems hold great promise for applications in the field of nanoenergy harvesting and nanophotonics.
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