Controlling the Self-Assembly and Material Properties of β-Sheet Peptide Hydrogels by Modulating Intermolecular Interactions [PDF]
Gels, 2023 Self-assembling peptides are a promising biomaterial with potential applications in medical devices and drug delivery. In the right combination of conditions, self-assembling peptides can form self-supporting hydrogels.
James P. Warren +5 more
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Advanced ScienceCurrent therapies for the devastating damage caused by traumatic brain injuries (TBI) are limited. This is in part due to poor drug efficacy to modulate neuroinflammation, angiogenesis and/or promoting neuroprotection and is the combined result of ...
Negar Mahmoudi +7 more
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Self-Assembling Peptides and Carbon Nanomaterials Join Forces for Innovative Biomedical Applications
Molecules, 2021 Self-assembling peptides and carbon nanomaterials have attracted great interest for their respective potential to bring innovation in the biomedical field.
Petr Rozhin +2 more
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Thiol- and Disulfide-Based Stimulus-Responsive Soft Materials and Self-Assembling Systems
Molecules, 2021 Properties and applications of synthetic thiol- and disulfide-based materials, principally polymers, are reviewed. Emphasis is placed on soft and self-assembling materials in which interconversion of the thiol and disulfide groups initiates stimulus ...
Danielle M. Beaupre, Richard G. Weiss
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Self-assembled carriers as drug delivery systems: Current characterization challenges and future prospects [PDF]
Arhiv za farmaciju, 2023 A review of recent publications reveals an increased interest in the so-called self-assembled carriers and their applicability in drug delivery via various routes of administration.
Pantelić Ivana +3 more
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Self-assembling peptide-enriched electrospun polycaprolactone scaffolds promote the h-osteoblast adhesion and modulate differentiation-associated gene expression [PDF]
, 2012 Electrospun polycaprolactone (PCL) is able to support the adhesion and growth of h-osteoblasts and to delay their degradation rate to a greater extent with respect to other polyesters. The drawbacks linked to its employment in regenerative medicine arise
V. Samouillan +23 more
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Artificial Cells, Nanomedicine, and Biotechnology, 2019 Ion-complementary self-assembling peptides have potential in delivering hydrophobic drugs. This study involved two self-assembling peptides, RADA16-I and RVDV16-I, of which RVDV16-I was a novel self-assembling peptide with different hydrophobic side ...
Weipeng Wei +8 more
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Peptide-Tetrapyrrole Supramolecular Self-Assemblies: State of the Art
Molecules, 2021 The covalent and noncovalent association of self-assembling peptides and tetrapyrroles was explored as a way to generate systems that mimic Nature’s functional supramolecular structures. Different types of peptides spontaneously assemble with porphyrins,
Paolo Dognini +3 more
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Self-repair ability of evolved self-assembling systems in cellular automata [PDF]
, 2014 Self-repairing systems are those that are able to reconfigure themselves following disruptions to bring them back into a defined normal state. In this paper we explore the self-repair ability of some cellular automata-like systems, which differ from ...
Johnson, Colin G., Öztürkeri, Can
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Emerging Biosensors Based on Noble Metal Self‐Assembly for In Vitro Disease Diagnosis
Advanced NanoBiomed Research, 2023 The biosensing systems are powerful tools in characterizing the pathological state of patients, promising in vitro disease diagnosis at an early stage.
Xvelian Li, Kun Qian, Lin Huang
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