Metal–ion coordination has been widely exploited to control the supramolecular behavior of
a variety of building blocks into functional materials. In particular, peptides offer great …

Discovery of peptide domains with unique intermolecular interactions is essential for
engineering peptide-based materials. Rather than attempting a brute-force approach, we …

Conspectus Protein-based biomaterials attract growing interests due to their encoded and
programmable robust mechanical properties, superelasticity, plasticity, shape adaptability …

Metal coordination and peptide-directed self-assembly are two proven methods for creating
defined supramolecular architectures. Here, we report a new class of crystalline materials …

Supramolecular living matter is remarkably complex in composition and structure and often
exists far from equilibrium. The biological manufacturing process involves …

Emergent properties of natural biomaterials result from the collective effects of nanoscale
interactions among ordered and disordered domains. Here, using recombinant sequence …

In this critical review we highlight recent advances in the use of peptide-and protein-related
materials as smart building blocks in nanotechnology. Peptides and proteins can be very …

A major goal in metalloprotein design is to build protein scaffolds from scratch that allow
precise control over metal coordination. A particular challenge in this regard is the …

Metalloproteins are crucial for life. The mutual relationship between metal ions and proteins
makes metalloproteins able to accomplish key processes in biological systems, often very …

Many types of nano-and micro-structures are formed spontaneously through the self-
assembly of biomolecules in nature, but devising chemical strategies to create biomolecular …