This review is aimed to provide a concise yet extensive survey of key short bioactive peptide
sequences for a range of applications ranging from biomaterials development to peptides …

Histidine, a versatile proteinogenic amino acid, plays a broad range of roles in all living
organisms and behaves as a key mediator of the interactions of biomolecules with inorganic …

The structural arrangement of amino acid residues in native enzymes underlies their
remarkable catalytic properties, thus providing a notable point of reference for designing …

Self-assembly of molecules often results in new emerging properties. Even very short
peptides can self-assemble into structures with a variety of physical and structural …

In diverse natural enzyme systems, their elegant properties and functions appeal to great
interest not only in unraveling the natural profound mystery but also in engineering the …

Self-assembling short peptides are attractive minimal systems for mimicking the constituents
of living systems and building (bio) materials. The combination of both d-and l-amino acids …

Chiral nanozymes represent an exciting convergence of nanotechnology and enzymatic
catalysis, possessing both the biologically inspired catalytic properties of nanomaterials and …

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

Supramolecular gels have been an area of interest in many research fields. They provide a
means to understand assembly of nanostructures, and through the use of amino acid-and …

Nanomaterials as artificial enzymes (nanozymes) have aroused extensive research interest
owing to their highly stable, long storage period, and low-cost alternatives to enzymes …