The development of surfaces that have switchable properties, also known as smart surfaces,
have been actively pursued in the past few years. The recent surge of interest in these …

Polymers have gained a remarkable place in the biomedical field as materials for the
fabrication of various devices and for tissue engineering applications. The initial acceptance …

Atomic force microscopy is an amazing technique that allies a versatile methodology (that
allows measurement of samples in liquid, vacuum or air) to imaging with unprecedented …

The chemistry, geometry, topography and mechanical properties of biomaterials modulate
biochemical signals (in particular ligand-receptor binding events) that control cells-matrix …

Here we generalize a highly programmable strategy to self-assemble multiprotein
nanoarrays with deterministic positional addressability. These protein nanoarrays were …

Advanced printing and deposition methodologies are revolutionising the way biological
molecules are deposited and leading to changes in the mass production of biosensors and …

The immobilization of proteins on solid substrates while controlling the size and dimensions
of the generated patterns is increasingly relevant in biotechnology.[1] Site-specific …

Amphipols (APols) are short amphipathic polymers that can substitute for detergents at the
transmembrane surface of membrane proteins (MPs) and, thereby, keep them soluble in …

Conventional soft-lithography methods involving the transfer of molecular “inks” from
polymeric stamps to substrates often encounter micrometer-scale resolution limits due to …

Cells in physiological 3D environments differ considerably in morphology and differentiation
from those in 2D tissue culture. Naturally derived polymer systems are frequently used to …