Polypeptide-based self-healing hydrogels: Design and biomedical applications

L Cai, S Liu, J Guo, YG Jia - Acta Biomaterialia, 2020 - Elsevier
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 …

Short peptide-based smart thixotropic hydrogels

B Pramanik - Gels, 2022 - mdpi.com
Thixotropy is a fascinating feature present in many gel systems that has garnered a lot of
attention in the medical field in recent decades. When shear stress is applied, the gel …

Ultrashort peptide self-assembly: front-runners to transport drug and gene cargos

S Gupta, I Singh, AK Sharma, P Kumar - Frontiers in Bioengineering …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
The translational therapies to promote interaction between cell and signal come with
stringent eligibility criteria. The chemically defined, hierarchically organized, and simpler yet …

The diverse world of foldamers: endless possibilities of self-assembly

S Rinaldi - Molecules, 2020 - mdpi.com
Different classes of foldamers, which are synthetic oligomers that adopt well-defined
conformations in solution, have been the subject of extensive studies devoted to the …

Highly Synergistic Properties of Multicomponent Hydrogels Thanks to Cooperative Nucleopeptide Assemblies

P Hoschtettler, G Pickaert, A Carvalho… - Chemistry of …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Supramolecular materials have drawn much attention in the past years, particularly because
of their great versatility in terms of structures, organization, and types of nano-objects they …

Localized delivery of immunotherapeutics: a rising trend in the field

J Wang, Y Zhang, J Pi, D Xing, C Wang - Journal of Controlled Release, 2021 - Elsevier
Immunotherapy is becoming a new standard of care for multiple cancers, while several
limitations are impending its further clinical success. Immunotherapeutic agents often have …

Improving and fine-tuning the properties of peptide-based hydrogels via incorporation of peptide nucleic acids

T Giraud, S Bouguet-Bonnet, P Marchal, G Pickaert… - Nanoscale, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Peptide self-assemblies have attracted intense research interest over the last few decades
thanks to their implications in key biological processes (eg, amyloid formation) and their use …

Disulphide cross‐linked ultrashort peptide hydrogelator for water remediation

B Kanti Das, R Samanta, S Ahmed… - … –A European Journal, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
A single amino acid in a peptide sequence can play an important role to tune the self‐
assembly and hydrogelation behaviour. Here, a C‐terminal cysteine‐containing ultrashort …

Evolution of Hybrid Hydrogels: Next-Generation Biomaterials for Drug Delivery and Tissue Engineering

MM Rana, H De la Hoz Siegler - Gels, 2024 - mdpi.com
Hydrogels, being hydrophilic polymer networks capable of absorbing and retaining aqueous
fluids, hold significant promise in biomedical applications owing to their high water content …

Self-healing oxalamide organogelators of vegetable oil

NŠ Vujičić, JS Sajko, L Brkljačić, P Radošević, I Jerić… - Gels, 2023 - mdpi.com
The aim of this study was to assess the gelling potential of chiral oxalamide derivatives in
vegetable oils. Special emphasis was given to the potential applications of the examined oil …