Simple peptides are shown to assemble into well-defined amyloid phases with paracrystalline surfaces that can catalyse reactions in an enantioselective manner. Modifying individual amino acids in the building blocks enables the structure of the assembled aggregates, and the reactions that they can catalyse, to be controlled predictably.
- Tolulope O. Omosun
- Ming-Chien Hsieh
- David G. Lynn