HUANG Yugang, CHU Yuehuan, HE Minghui, et al. Polypeptide-Based Doubly-Hydrophilic Hybrid Copolymers Containing Carboxyl Groups for Control of the Form of CaCO3. [J]. Acta Scientiarum Naturalium Universitatis SunYatseni 53(3):73-79(2014)
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HUANG Yugang, CHU Yuehuan, HE Minghui, et al. Polypeptide-Based Doubly-Hydrophilic Hybrid Copolymers Containing Carboxyl Groups for Control of the Form of CaCO3. [J]. Acta Scientiarum Naturalium Universitatis SunYatseni 53(3):73-79(2014)DOI:
Polypeptide-Based Doubly-Hydrophilic Hybrid Copolymers Containing Carboxyl Groups for Control of the Form of CaCO3
Polypeptide-based doubly-hydrophilic hybrid copolymers (PEO-b-PPLG-g-MPA) containing a great amount of carboxyl groups at the sidechains of polypeptide blocks were synthesized by combination of ring opening polymerization of N-carboxyanhydrides (NCAs) and thiol-yne photo-click reaction. The obtained polypeptidebased doublyhydrophilic hybrid copolymers (DHHC) were used as protein template to direct biomineralization of CaCO
3
in aqueous solution. Conformational changes of the polypeptide blocks were revealed by circular dichroism (CD) spectroscopy. Morphology of the obtained CaCO
3
was investigated by scanning electron microscope (SEM). Crystal form of the CaCO
3
was confirmed by x-ray diffraction (XRD). The results of CD analysis indicated that the polypeptide blocks could effectively control the morphology of CaCO
3
in water when they adopted random coil conformation
rather than more ordered α-helix or β-sheet. SEM analysis showed that the growth of the CaCO
3
crystals was strongly dependent on the concentration of polypeptides. Furthermore
the morphology of CaCO
3
was tunable by the variation of length of polypeptide blocks and pH value of the aqueous solution. CaCO
3
could form the microsphere with smooth surface
spherical superstructures with some tiny disklike particles grown on the surface and “flower” aggregated nanorod structures. XRD analysis verified that the obtained CaCO