Materials Taking a Lesson from Nature

Authors

  • Liangfei Tian Laboratory of Macromolecular & Organic Materials École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne EPFL – STI – IMX – LMOM Building MXG, Room 037, Station 12 CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland; Department of Materials Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich Wolfgang-Pauli-Strasse 10 CH-8093 Zürich, Switzerland
  • Emmanuel Croisier Laboratory of Macromolecular & Organic Materials École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne EPFL – STI – IMX – LMOM Building MXG, Room 037, Station 12 CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
  • Holger Frauenrath Laboratory of Macromolecular & Organic Materials École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne EPFL – STI – IMX – LMOM Building MXG, Room 037, Station 12 CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland. holger.frauenrath@epfl.ch

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.2533/chimia.2013.782

Keywords:

Biomaterials, Hierarchical structure formation, Oligopeptides, Supramolecular self-assembly

Abstract

Structural biomaterials with their often extraordinary properties and versatile functions are typically constructed from very limited sets of building blocks and types of supramolecular interactions. In this review we discuss how, inspired by nature's design principles for protein-based materials, oligopeptide-modified polymers can be used as a versatile toolbox to program nanostructure and hierarchical structure formation in synthetic materials.
CHIMIA Vol. 67 No. 11 (2013): Polymers, Colloids, and Interfaces

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Published

2013-11-27

How to Cite

[1]
L. Tian, E. Croisier, H. Frauenrath, Chimia 2013, 67, 782, DOI: 10.2533/chimia.2013.782.

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Vol. 67 No. 11 (2013): Polymers, Colloids, and Interfaces

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Scientific Articles

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