Patent ID: 11965016
Assignee: MINTECH-V, LLC
Field: Pharmaceuticals (Chemistry)
Classification: CPC C  A | IPC A  C

Claim 2:
3. A hybrid organic-inorganic system comprising:
hierarchically-ordered crystalline structures, and
a protein scaffold membrane capable of growing the hierarchically-ordered crystalline structures thereon or therein,
wherein the protein scaffold membrane comprises an elastin-like polypeptide membrane having an aggregated macromolecular arrangement comprising disorder conformations and ordered conformations, wherein the aggregated macromolecular arrangement controls a formation of the hierarchically-ordered crystalline structures, and
wherein at least a portion of the hierarchically-ordered crystalline structures comprise one or more of nanostructures, microstructures, or macrostructures assembled in a hierarchal order across multiple length-scales, and wherein the levels of hierarchy comprise needle-shaped nanocrystals that are organized into prism-shaped microstructures, and the prism-shaped microstructures comprise circular or asymmetrical structures hundreds of microns in diameter and can fill macroscopic areas.