Synthetic Oligoelectrolytes (IMAGE)

University of California - Santa Barbara

Synthetic Oligoelectrolytes

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Synthetic oligoelectrolytes with electronically delocalized structures serve as amphiphilic molecular wires that spontaneously insert into bilayer membranes into ordered orientations such that transmembrane electron transfer can be greatly accelerated.

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Peter Allen/UCSB

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