Peptide-based supramolecular systems chemistry seeks to mimic the ability of life forms to
use conserved sets of building blocks and chemical reactions to achieve a bewildering array …

In this review we intend to provide a relatively comprehensive summary of the work of
supramolecular hydrogelators after 2004 and to put emphasis particularly on the …

Chirality is a basic characteristic of living matter and nature. During the evolution of life on
our planet, nature has favored one kind of chirality, thereby selecting the l-amino acids (with …

Self-assembled peptide nanostructures have been increasingly exploited as functional
materials for applications in biomedicine and energy. The emergent properties of these …

Molecular self-assembly is a ubiquitous process in nature and central to bottom-up
nanotechnology. In particular, the organization of peptide building blocks into ordered …

Self-assembled peptides have shown outstanding characteristics for vaccine delivery and
drug targeting. Peptide molecules can be rationally designed to self-assemble into specific …

Inspired by self-assembling peptides found in native proteins, deliberately designed
engineered peptides have shown outstanding biocompatibility, biodegradability, and …

Peptide self-assemblies with multiple nanostructures have great potentials in functional
biomaterials, and yet the tedious and costly covalent peptide modification and the lack of …

Low molecular weight gels, or supramolecular gels, are formed when small molecules self-
assemble into fibrous structures. Above a critical concentration, the entanglement and cross …

This review covers an important class of soft-materials–peptide-based hydrogels,
distinctively focussing on the different types of small peptide/low molecular weight and …