When Szent-Györgyi called water the “matrix of life”, 1 he was echoing an old sentiment.
Paracelsus in the 16th century said that “water was the matrix of the world and of all its …

In most general terms, polymers and their supramolecular assemblies have been defining
life on this planet since its conception. Polymers of nucleic acids carry the code of life and …

Bioinspired polymeric materials are attracting increasing attention due to significant
advantages over their natural counterparts: the ability to precisely tune their structures over a …

In the last decade, the field of sequence‐defined polymers and related ultraprecise,
monodisperse synthetic macromolecules has grown exponentially. In the early stage, mainly …

Antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) are promising pharmaceutical candidates for the prevention
and treatment of infections caused by multidrug-resistant ESKAPE pathogens, which are …

The highly refined organic chemistry in solid-phase synthesis has made it the method of
choice not only to assemble peptides but also small proteins–mainly on a laboratory scale …

Polymer sequence programmability is required for the diverse structures and complex
properties that are achieved by native biological polymers, but efforts towards controlling the …

Oligomers of N-substituted glycine, or peptoids, are versatile tools to probe biological
processes and hold promise as therapeutic agents. An underlying theme in the majority of …

Peptoid oligomers were initially developed as part of a larger basic research effort to
accelerate the drug‐discovery process in the biotech/biopharma industry. Their ease of …

Foldamers are an intriguing family of biomimetic oligomers that exhibit a propensity to adopt
stable secondary structures. N-Substituted glycine oligomers, or “peptoids”, are a …