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Inside Cover: Self-Assembled Organic Nanostructures with Metallic-Like Stiffness (Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 51/2010)
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Self-assembled organic nanostructures show a remarkable metallic-like Young's modulus of up to 275 GPa, as measured by indentation-type experiments with atomic force microscopy using a diamond-tip cantilever. In their Communication on page 9939 ff., E. Gazit, I. Rousso, and co-workers outline how these aromatic dipeptide nanospheres are the stiffest organic materials reported to date, and are attractive building blocks for the design and assembly of ultrarigid composite biomaterials.
