Figure 1. Schematic diagram of the effects of carbon NPs on the oligomerizations of initial disordered IAPP22–28 peptides: (A) for four peptides; (B) for eight peptides.
Peptides are shown as cartoon, with β-sheet in yellow, β-bridge in lime, and others in white. The NPs are shown as sticks in ice blue. In the two sets, a presents the initial structure of 4-/8-peptide system without NP, and b presents their conformations after 200 ns simulations. In addition, c, d, and e present the corresponding conformations of the peptides interacting with graphene, SWCNT, or C60 after 200 ns simulations, respectively.