Porous Organic Materials from Self-Assembly of Peptides and Polyamides

Abstract

This chapter presents an overview of recent developments in organic nanoporous materials by self-assembly of peptide and polyamide moieties. It describes the nanoporous materials form short peptide and polyamide molecules. The chapter deals with molecular recognition and self-assembly of peptide and/or polyamide building blocks into supramolecular nanoporous structure. It outlines the folding, recognition, interactions, properties, and applications of the nanoporous materials. Over the last few decades, enormous efforts have been devoted to fabricate nanoporous materials with a uniform pore size and pore structure due to their attractive textual and structural features, such as tunability and ultra-high surface areas. Most of the reported nanoporous materials with molecular-scale pores are composed of directional covalent or coordination bonds, like organic network polymers or porous metal-organic frameworks. Polyamides are promising class of organic compounds that can form porous material via self-assembly through non-covalent interactions, such as hydrogen bonding, p-p stacking, ion pairing, hydrophobic interactions, and van der Waal's interactions. Keywords: π–π stacking; hydrogen bonding; hydrophobic interactions; ion pairing; organic nanoporous materials; peptides; polyamides; self-assembly; van der Waal's interactions