In the last few years, a variety of self-assembling short peptides that consist exclusively of
simple amino acids have been designed and modified. These peptides exhibit self …

Well‐defined nanofiber scaffold hydrogels made of self‐assembling peptides have found
their way into various 3D tissue culture and clinical products. I reflect initial puzzlement of the …

Over the past 20 years self-assembling peptides have been shown to be of value as
scaffolds in the field of tissue engineering.[1] Self-assembling peptides offer many …

Scientists and bioengineers have dreamed of designing materials from the bottom up with
the finest detail and ultimate control at the single molecular level. The discovery of a class of …

Until the mid‐1980s, mainly biologists were conducting peptide research. This changed with
discoveries that opened new paths of research involving the use of peptides in …

The formation of well-ordered nanostructures through self-assembly of diverse organic and
inorganic building blocks has drawn much attention owing to their potential applications in …

Short peptides are uniquely versatile building blocks for self-assembly. Supramolecular
peptide assemblies can be used to construct functional hydrogel biomaterials—an attractive …

A new class of systematically designed ultrasmall (tri-to heptamer) peptides presents the
smallest natural, non-aromatic structures that self-assemble in water to hydrogels. The …

Self-assembling peptides could be considered a novel class of agents able to harvest an
array of micro/nanostructures that are highly attractive in the biomedical field. By modifying …

Self-assembling peptides are being applied both in the biomedical area and as building
blocks in nanotechnology. Their applications are closely linked to their modes of self …