Self-assembly of various building blocks has been considered as a powerful approach to
generate novel materials with tailorable structures and optimal properties. Understanding …

Background All soft and solid surface structures in the oral cavity are covered by the
acquired pellicle followed by bacterial colonization. This applies for natural structures as …

Besides the wide use of engineered nanomaterials (NMs) in technical products, their
applications are not only increasing in biotechnology and biomedicine, but also in the …

Fundamentally, all interactions between the nanoparticle corona complex and the biological
machinery are mediated by physical forces common to all molecular systems. The …

The Martini model, a coarse-grained force field for biomolecular simulations, has found a
broad range of applications since its release a decade ago. Based on a building block …

The Martini coarse-grained force field has been successfully used for simulating a wide
range of (bio) molecular systems. Recent progress in our ability to test the model against …

Nanomaterials hold promise as multifunctional diagnostic and therapeutic agents. However,
the effective application of nanomaterials is hampered by limited understanding and control …

Protein-based bioactive coatings have emerged as a versatile and promising strategy for
enhancing the performance and biocompatibility of diverse biomedical materials and …

Proteins have been adopted by natural living organisms to create robust bioadhesive
materials, such as biofilms and amyloid plaques formed in microbes and barnacles. In these …

Understanding protein–inorganic surface interactions is central to the rational design of new
tools in biomaterial sciences, nanobiotechnology and nanomedicine. Although a significant …