Peptide-based materials that have diverse structures and functionalities are an important
type of biomaterials. In former times, peptide-based nanomaterials with excellent stability …

Short peptides are ubiquitous in nature. They are found as hormones, pheromones,
antibacterial and antifungal agents in innate immunity systems, toxins, and pesticides. But …

Hierarchical self-assembly and crystallization with long-range ordered spatial arrangement
is ubiquitous in nature and plays an essential role in the regulation of structures and …

Self-assembling systems play a significant role in physiological functions and have therefore
attracted tremendous attention due to their great potential for applications in energy …

BACKGROUND The increasing demand for environmentally friendly organic
semiconductors that can be easily fabricated and tuned has inspired scientists to design self …

Peptide self-assemblies show intriguing and tunable physicochemical properties, and thus
have been attracting increasing interest over the last two decades. However, the micro/nano …

Molecular self-assembly is a ubiquitous process in nature and central to bottom-up
nanotechnology. In particular, the organization of peptide building blocks into ordered …

The conjugation of biomolecules can impart materials with the bioactivity necessary to
modulate specific cell behaviors. While the biological roles of particular polypeptide …

Nature is enriched with a wide variety of complex, synergistic, and highly functional protein-
based multicomponent assemblies. As such, nature has served as a source of inspiration for …

Bioinspired nanostructures can be the ideal functional smart materials to bridge the
fundamental biology, biomedicine and nanobiotechnology fields. Among them, short …