The extracellular matrix (ECM) is a dynamic environment that constantly provides physical
and chemical cues to embedded cells. Much progress has been made in engineering …

A living radical polymerization (LRP) is a free radical polymerization that aims at displaying
living character,(ie, does not terminate or transfer and is able to continue polymerization …

This review focuses on smart nano-materials built of stimuli-responsive (SR) polymers and
will discuss their numerous applications in the biomedical field. The authors will first provide …

The interest in using the polymer-coated gold nanoparticles (P-AuNPs) for various
biomedical applications, including the delivery of chemotherapeutic in cancer has been …

The traditional motivation for integrating biological components into microfabricated devices
has been to create biosensors that meld the molecular recognition capabilities of biology …

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 …

Real-time control over and reversibility of biomolecule–surface interactions at interfaces is
an increasingly important goal for a range of scientific fields and applications. The field of …

Biotechnology, biomedicine, and nanotechnology applications would benefit from methods
generating well-defined, monodisperse protein− polymer conjugates, avoiding time …

Peptides are emerging as a new class of biomaterials due to their unique chemical,
physical, and biological properties. The development of peptide-based biomaterials is …

Elastin-like polypeptides (ELPs) are stimulus-responsive peptide polymers that exhibit
inverse temperature phase transition behavior, causing an ELP to aggregate above its …