| abstract |
A method of fabricating nanoscale structural materials via the spontaneous organization of self-assembling proteins and the self-assembling proteins themselves. In a preferred embodiment of the invention, the self-assembling proteins included at least one occurrence of the following recognition sequence: <IMAGE> <IMAGE> <IMAGE> wherein Xaa is a charged residue selected from the group consisting of Glu, Lys, Arg and Asp, and the method comprises admixing proteins which include species of the aforementioned recognition sequence which are prone to dimerization, whereby the admixed proteins are caused to spontaneously organize into nanoscale structural materials via their respective recognition sequences. |