Tissue engineering has become a promising strategy for repairing damaged cartilage and
bone tissue. Among the scaffolds for tissue-engineering applications, injectable hydrogels …

The rational design of drug delivery approaches leveraging supramolecular chemistry
(ie,“chemistry beyond the molecule”) has garnered significant interest in recent years toward …

The communication of cells with their surroundings is mostly encoded in the epitopes of
structural and signalling proteins present in the extracellular matrix (ECM). These peptide …

Supramolecular assembly of peptide-based monomers into nanostructures offers many
promising applications in advanced therapies. In this Tutorial Review, we introduce …

Heparin plays an important role in many biological processes via its interaction with various
proteins, and hydrogels and nanoparticles comprising heparin exhibit attractive properties …

There is a persistent and growing clinical need for readily-available substitutes for heart
valves and small-diameter blood vessels. In situ tissue engineering is emerging as a …

Mimicking the native extracellular matrix (ECM) as a cell culture scaffold has long attracted
scientists from the perspective of supramolecular chemistry for potential application in …

The design and fabrication of self-assembled peptide nanostructures offer an amazing
platform for creating functional nanomaterials for various biomedical applications. Utilizing …

Hyaluronic acid (HA) is a primary component of the brain extracellular matrix and functions
through cellular receptors to regulate cell behavior within the central nervous system (CNS) …

Thrombus formation and subsequent occlusion are the main reasons for the failure of small-
diameter vascular grafts. In this study, a hybrid small-diameter vascular graft was developed …