Engineering protein and peptide-based materials for drug delivery applications has gained
momentum due to their biochemical and biophysical properties over synthetic materials …

Self-assembly of peptides can yield an array of well-defined nanostructures that are highly
attractive nanomaterials for many biomedical applications such as drug delivery. Some of …

Elastin-like polypeptides (ELPs) are stimulus-responsive biopolymers derived from human
elastin. Their unique properties—including lower critical solution temperature phase …

Proteins and synthetic polymers that undergo aqueous phase transitions mediate self-
assembly in nature and in man-made material systems. Yet little is known about how the …

Elastin-like polypeptides (ELPs) are biopolymers inspired by human elastin. Their lower
critical solution temperature phase transition behavior and biocompatibility make them …

Protein-based nanocarriers have gained considerable attention as colloidal carrier systems
for the delivery of anticancer drugs. Protein nanocarriers possess various advantages …

Injectable nanocarriers and hydrogels have found widespread use in a variety of biomedical
applications such as local and sustained biotherapeutic cargo delivery, and as cell …

The use of recombinant elastin-like materials, or elastin-like recombinamers (ELRs), in drug-
delivery applications is reviewed in this work. Although ELRs were initially used in similar …

The phase separation of biomolecules has become the focus of intense research in the past
decade, with a growing body of research implicating this phenomenon in essentially all …

A feature article is presented on recent developments in the investigation of stimuli
responsive polymers and their biomedical applications. Polymer systems are grouped with …