Biotechnological applications of CAs from extremophiles

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"Self-assembled ureidocrown-ethers - an example of ion-channel organization in lipid bilayers"

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Constitutional self-organization of adenine-uracil-derived hybrid materials

International audienceThe alkoxysilane nucleobase adenine (A) and uracil (U) precursors described in this paper generate in solution a complex library of hydrogenbonded aggregates, which can be expressed in the solid state as discrete higher oligomers. The different interconverting outputs that nucleobases may form by oligomerization define a dynamic polyfunctional diversity that may be "extracted selectively" in solid state by sol-gel transcription, under the intrinsic stability of the system. After he sol-gel process, unique constitutional preference for specific geometries in hybrid materials is consistent with a preferential arrangement of nucleobase systems, favoring the self-assembly by the Hoogsteen geometry. FTIR and NMR spectroscopy and -ray powder diffraction experiments demonstrate the formation of self-organized hybrid supramolecular materials. Electron microscopy reveals the micrometric platelike morphology of the hybrid materials. The MA-U hybrid material is nanostructured in ordered circular domains of 5 nm in diameter of alternative light and dark rows with an one-dimensional periodicity of 3.5 A°

Ion-conduction pathways in self-organised ureidoarene-heteropolysiloxane hybrid membranes

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