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 …

Due to the unique and excellent biological, physical, and chemical properties of peptide
hydrogels, their application in the biomedical field is extremely wide. The applications of …

Hydrogels hold much promise for 3D printing of functional living materials; however,
challenges remain in tailoring mechanical robustness as well as biological performance. In …

The phase separation behavior of biomacromolecules plays a key role in the fields of
biology and medicine. In this work, we gain a deep insight into how the primary and …

Polypeptides obtained from the ring-opening polymerization of N-carboxyanhydrides, as the
synthetic analogues of natural proteins, have drawn broad interests during the recent three …

Stimuli-responsive hydrogels are smart three-dimensional materials containing a huge
amount of water, which can respond to different stimuli. Typical polymeric hydrogels can be …

Natural and synthetic polypeptides with upper critical solution temperature (UCST) behavior
have attracted extensive interest due to their applications in the biomedical fields. However …

Peptide-based supramolecular hydrogels have attracted great attention due to their good
biocompatibility and biodegradability and have become promising candidates for …

Self-assembled peptide-based hydrogels have shown great potential in bio-related
applications due to porous structure, strong mechanical stability, high biocompatibility, and …

The initiators for ring-opening polymerization (ROP) of α-amino acid N-carboxyanhydrides
(NCA) to prepare polypeptides usually require high nucleophilicity. For initiators with lower …