The interest in functional supramolecular systems for the design of innovative materials and
technologies, able to fundamentally change the world, is growing at a high pace. The huge …

Self-assembly peptide-based hydrogels are well known and popular in biomedical
applications due to the fact that they are readily controllable and have biocompatibility …

Diphenylalanine is an amyloidogenic building block that can form a versatile array of
supramolecular materials. Its shortcomings, however, include the uncontrolled hierarchical …

Proteins are functional building blocks of living organisms that exert a wide variety of
functions, but their synthesis and industrial production can be cumbersome and expensive …

Cyclodipeptides (CDPs) or 2, 5-diketopiperazines (DKPs) can exert a variety of biological
activities and display pronounced resistance against enzymatic hydrolysis as well as a …

A new type of peptide bond formation utilizing silacyclic amino acids or peptides is
described. This work has the following advantages:(1) imidazolylsilane is a highly …

Amino acid stereoconfiguration has been shown to play a key role in the self-assembly of
unprotected tripeptides into hydrogels under physiological conditions. Dramatic changes …

Unprotected dipeptides are attractive building blocks for environmentally friendly hydrogel
biomaterials by virtue of their low‐cost and ease of preparation. This work investigates the …

The uncapped tripeptide DPhe-Phe-Leu acts as self-assembly template to yield
supramolecular hydrogel biomaterials. As an example, self-assembling DPhe-Phe-Leu-Asp …

The use of peptides to template inorganic nanoparticle formation has attracted great interest
as a green route to advance structures with innovative physicochemical properties for a …