However, control of assembly across length scales is a difficult challenge, often confounded by the perceived need to re-design the molecular building blocks when new properties are needed. Here, we show that we can treat a simple dipeptide building block as a polyelectrolyte and use well understood robust polymer physics approaches to understand the self-assembly of this LMWG over a wide concentration range, allowing us to prepare a range of different materials from a single building block. Understanding the self-assembly process of these materials allows us to prepare interesting analogues to threads and webs as well as films that lose order on heating and noodles which change dimensions on heating, showing that we can transfer molecular changes to bulk properties. We highlight that this understanding will likely transfer to other materials such as peptide amphiphiles and molecular rotors 33 where the underlying principles are close. As such, this work shows that we can apply understanding from the well understood field of polyelectrolytes to the more challenging field of selfassembled materials.