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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Feb 12.
Published in final edited form as: Small. 2013 Sep 11;10(3):500–505. doi: 10.1002/smll.201300254

Figure 4.

Figure 4

Schematic representation of the nanostructured membrane formed by peptide amphiphiles (blue) and polyelectrolytes (red) in the case of weak aggregation (A) or strong aggregation (B) at the interface. Massive interfacial aggregation of PA leads to a hierarchical membrane structure in which nanofibers grow perpendicular to the diffusion barrier, while weak interfacial aggregation creates membranes with a cubic phase of nanosphere aggregates wrapped in polyelectrolyte chains.