Engineering protein and peptide-based materials for drug delivery applications has gained
momentum due to their biochemical and biophysical properties over synthetic materials …

Elastic fibers are an important component of the extracellular matrix, providing stretch,
resilience, and cell interactivity to a broad range of elastic tissues. Elastin makes up the …

Polymer science has been driven by ever-increasing molecular complexity, as polymer
synthesis expands an already-vast palette of chemical and architectural parameter space …

Polymers, with the capacity to tunably alter properties and response based on manipulation
of their chemical characteristics, are attractive components in biomaterials. Nevertheless …

The biochemical and biophysical properties of the extracellular matrix (ECM) play a pivotal
role in regulating cellular behaviors such as proliferation, migration, and differentiation …

Despite the great promise of antibiotic therapy in wound infections, antibiotic resistance
stemming from frequent dosing diminishes drug efficacy and contributes to recurrent …

Abstract Elastin-like recombinamers (ELRs), which derive from one of the repetitive domains
found in natural elastin, have been intensively studied in the last few years from several …

Polymeric materials are ubiquitous in our everyday life, where they find a broad range of
uses—spanning across common household items to advanced materials for modern …

Recently, the potential use of nanoparticles for the targeted delivery of therapeutic and
diagnostic agents has garnered increased interest. Several nanoparticle drug delivery …

The dearth of knowledge on the diverse structures and functions in bacterial collagen-like
proteins is in stark contrast to the deep grasp of structures and functions in mammalian …