Self-assembled peptide nanostructures have been increasingly exploited as functional
materials for applications in biomedicine and energy. The emergent properties of these …

A core challenge in biomaterials, with both fundamental significance and technological
relevance, concerns the rational design of bioactive microenvironments. Designed properly …

DNA and peptides are two of the most commonly used biomolecules for building self-
assembling materials, but few examples exist of hybrid nanostructures that contain both …

Wound dressings based on bacterial cellulose (BC) can form a soft and conformable
protective layer that can stimulate wound healing while preventing bacteria from entering the …

Coiled coils are characterized by an arrangement of two or more α-helices into a superhelix
and one of few protein motifs where the sequence-to-structure relationships to a large extent …

Abstract α-Helical coiled coils are ubiquitous protein-folding and protein-interaction domains
in which two or more α-helical chains come together to form bundles. Through a …

Although interest in stabilized α-helical peptides as next-generation therapeutics for
modulating biomolecular interfaces is increasing, peptides have limited functionality and …

Hydrogels are used in a wide range of biomedical applications, including three-dimensional
(3D) cell culture, cell therapy and bioprinting. To enable processing using advanced additive …

Self‐assembling coiled coils, which occur commonly in native proteins, have received
significant interest for the design of new biomaterials‐based medical therapies …

Owing to their synthetic accessibility and protein-mimetic features, peptides represent an
attractive biomolecular building block for the fabrication of artificial biomimetic materials with …