Materials, Volume 16, Issue 14
2023 July-2 - 312 articles
Cover Story: Nano-sized dipeptide self-assembled structures hold promise in materials science for energy harvesting. Aromatic cyclodipeptides, especially those with tryptophan, are highly regarded for their wide-bandgap semiconductor properties, photoluminescence, and nonlinear optical behaviour. This study presents a hybrid system of biopolymer electrospun fibers embedded with chiral cyclo-dipeptide L-Tryptophan-L-Tyrosine. The resulting nanofibers are wide-bandgap semiconductors (4.0 eV) with self-assembled nanotubes, exhibiting intense blue photoluminescence. Moreover, they display strong second harmonic generation (0.36 pm/V) and notable piezoelectric properties (22 pC/N, of geff = 1.2 Vm/N, peak power density 0.16 µW/cm2). These hybrid systems show great promise for nanoenergy harvesting and nanophotonic applications. View this paper - Issues are regarded as officially published after their release is announced to the table of contents alert mailing list .
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