Supramolecular amplification of amyloid self-assembly by iodination

Arianna Bertolani¹, Lisa Pirrie^1,2, Loic Stefan¹, Nikolay Houbenov³, Johannes S. Haataja³, Luca Catalano¹,Giancarlo Terraneo¹, Gabriele Giancane⁴, Ludovico Valli⁴, Roberto Milani², Olli Ikkala³, Giuseppe Resnati¹ & PierangeloMetrangolo^1,2

¹Laboratory of Nanostructured Fluorinated Materials (NFMLab), Department of Chemistry, Materials, and Chemical Engineering ‘Giulio Natta’, Politecnico di Milano, Via Mancinelli 7, Milano I-20131, Italy.
²VTT-Technical Research Centre of Finland, PO Box 1000, Espoo FI-02044, Finland.
³Department of Applied Physics, Aalto University, PO Box 15100, Espoo FI-02150, Finland.
⁴Dipartimento Beni Culturali, Universita' del Salento, Lecce I-73100, Italy.

Nature Communications 6, Article number:7574, doi:10.1038/ncomms8574

Received 05 March 2015; Accepted 19 May 2015; Published 30 June 2015

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