Polypeptide-based self-healing hydrogels: Design and biomedical applications

L Cai, S Liu, J Guo, YG Jia - Acta Biomaterialia, 2020 - Elsevier
Self-healing hydrogels can heal themselves on the damaged sites, which opens up a
fascinating way for enhancing lifetimes of materials. Polypeptide/poly (amino acid) is a class …

PEG–peptide conjugates

IW Hamley - Biomacromolecules, 2014 - ACS Publications
The remarkable diversity of the self-assembly behavior of PEG–peptides is reviewed,
including self-assemblies formed by PEG–peptides with β-sheet and α-helical (coiled-coil) …

Smart self‐assembled hybrid hydrogel biomaterials

J Kopeček, J Yang - Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Hybrid biomaterials are systems created from components of at least two distinct classes of
molecules, for example, synthetic macromolecules and proteins or peptide domains. The …

Self-healing, self-assembled β-sheet peptide–poly (γ-glutamic acid) hybrid hydrogels

DE Clarke, ET Pashuck, S Bertazzo… - Journal of the …, 2017 - ACS Publications
Self-assembled biomaterials are an important class of materials that can be injected and
formed in situ. However, they often are not able to meet the mechanical properties …

Peptide/protein–polymer conjugates: synthetic strategies and design concepts

MA Gauthier, HA Klok - Chemical Communications, 2008 - pubs.rsc.org
This feature article provides a compilation of tools available for preparing well-defined
peptide/protein–polymer conjugates, which are defined as hybrid constructs combining (i) a …

Polypeptide–polymer bioconjugates

LA Canalle, DWPM Löwik, JCM van Hest - Chemical Society Reviews, 2010 - pubs.rsc.org
Creating bioconjugates by combining polymers with peptides and proteins is an emerging
multidisciplinary field of research that has enjoyed increased attention within the scientific …

Amphiphilic peptides and their cross-disciplinary role as building blocks for nanoscience

S Cavalli, F Albericio, A Kros - Chemical Society Reviews, 2010 - pubs.rsc.org
Peptides are particularly attractive as molecular building blocks in the bottom-up fabrication
of supramolecular structures based on self-assembly and have potential in many important …

Click and click‐inspired chemistry for the design of sequence‐controlled polymers

S Martens, JO Holloway… - Sequence‐Controlled …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
In the previous decade,“click” chemistry and similarly efficient click‐inspired reactions along
with sequence‐defined and sequence‐controlled structures were introduced into the field of …

Protein‐and peptide‐modified synthetic polymeric biomaterials

OD Krishna, KL Kiick - Peptide Science: Original Research on …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
This review presents an overview on bio‐hybrid approaches of integrating the structural and
functional features of proteins and peptides with synthetic polymers and the resulting unique …

Peptides as novel smart materials

R Fairman, KS Åkerfeldt - Current opinion in structural biology, 2005 - Elsevier
Important challenges in biomaterials design include predicting the formation of large-scale
self-assembled structures based on local atomic-level interactions and then endowing such …