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

A core challenge in biomaterials, with both fundamental significance and technological
relevance, concerns the rational design of bioactive microenvironments. Designed properly …

A common goal in tissue engineering is to attain the ability to tailor specific cell–scaffold
interactions and thereby gain control over cell behavior. The tunable nature of protein …

Nature utilizes both order and disorder (or controlled disorder) to achieve exceptional
materials properties and functions, while synthetic supramolecular materials mostly exploit …

Chemists, biologists, and material scientists alike have long sought to control protein
presentation, orientation, and activity within biomaterials to dictate reaction catalysis …

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

GAGs through the thickness of the scaffold. Utilizing specific binding peptides to guide
biomolecule concentration and placement mimics the dynamic, biologically relevant …

Self‐assembling proteins and peptides are increasingly gaining interest for potential use as
scaffolds in tissue engineering applications. They self‐organize from basic building blocks …

The fabrication of tissue engineering scaffolds is a well-established field that has gained
recent prominence for the in vivo repair of a variety of tissue types. Recently, increasing …

Protein-modified biomaterials can be used to modulate cellular function in three dimensions.
However, as the dynamic heterogeneous control over complex cell physiology continues to …