Bioinspired Materials: Oligothiophene Versus β‐Sheet Peptide: Synthesis and Self‐Assembly of an Organic Semiconductor‐Peptide Hybrid (Adv. Mater. 16/2009)

A first representative of a novel class of bioinspired materials, a fully symmetric hybrid between an oligothiophene and a β-sheet peptide, is introduced in work by Peter Bäuerle and co-workers on p. 1562. The conjugate can be synthesized via click-chemistry and employs a switch-peptide segment to gain control over the self-assembly motif of the peptide part.