Supramolecular hydrogelators and hydrogels: from soft matter to molecular biomaterials

X Du, J Zhou, J Shi, B Xu - Chemical reviews, 2015 - ACS Publications
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 …

Protein assembly: versatile approaches to construct highly ordered nanostructures

Q Luo, C Hou, Y Bai, R Wang, J Liu - Chemical Reviews, 2016 - ACS Publications
Nature endows life with a wide variety of sophisticated, synergistic, and highly functional
protein assemblies. Following Nature's inspiration to assemble protein building blocks into …

Chiral self-assembly of peptides: Toward the design of supramolecular polymers with enhanced chemical and biological functions

Y Shen, Y Wang, IW Hamley, W Qi, R Su… - Progress in Polymer …, 2021 - Elsevier
Chirality is one of the most important structural features in biological systems. Peptides, as a
class of small biomolecules, can self-assemble into various chiral supramolecular polymers …

A close look at molecular self-assembly with the transmission electron microscope

A Rizvi, JT Mulvey, BP Carpenter, R Talosig… - Chemical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Molecular self-assembly is pervasive in the formation of living and synthetic materials.
Knowledge gained from research into the principles of molecular self-assembly drives …

Biomedical applications of self-assembling peptides

M Rad-Malekshahi, L Lempsink, M Amidi… - Bioconjugate …, 2016 - ACS Publications
Self-assembling peptides have gained increasing attention as versatile molecules to
generate diverse supramolecular structures with tunable functionality. Because of the …

Modular design of self-assembling peptide-based nanotubes

NC Burgess, TH Sharp, F Thomas… - Journal of the …, 2015 - ACS Publications
An ability to design peptide-based nanotubes (PNTs) rationally with defined and mutable
internal channels would advance understanding of peptide self-assembly, and present new …

[HTML][HTML] Short to ultrashort peptide hydrogels for biomedical uses

WY Seow, CAE Hauser - Materials Today, 2014 - Elsevier
Hydrogels can offer cells an extracellular matrix-like growth environment which traditional
culture methods cannot provide. Hydrogels therefore have great value in tissue engineering …

Self-assembling peptides as building blocks of functional materials for biomedical applications

K Fukunaga, H Tsutsumi… - Bulletin of the Chemical …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Self-assembling peptides have been explored as building blocks to construct functional
materials that can be used in a broad range of biomedical applications. This account gives …

Self-assembled peptide nanostructures for functional materials

MS Ekiz, G Cinar, MA Khalily, MO Guler - Nanotechnology, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
Nature is an important inspirational source for scientists, and presents complex and elegant
examples of adaptive and intelligent systems created by self-assembly. Significant effort has …

Formation of functional super-helical assemblies by constrained single heptad repeat

S Mondal, L Adler-Abramovich, A Lampel… - Nature …, 2015 - nature.com
Inspired by the key role of super-helical motifs in molecular self-organization, several
tandem heptad repeat peptides were used as building blocks to form well-ordered …