Wiley-VCH, 2013. — 435 p.Peptides are the building blocks of the natural world; with varied sequences and structures, they enrich materials producing more complex shapes, scaffolds and chemical properties with tailorable functionality. Essentially based on self-assembly and self-organization and mimicking the strategies that occur in Nature, peptide materials have been developed to accomplish certain functions such as the creation of specific secondary structures (a- or 310-helices, b-turns, b-sheets, coiled coils) or biocompatible surfaces with predetermined properties. They also play a key role in the generation of hybrid materials e.g. as peptide-inorganic biomineralized systems and peptide/polymer conjugates, producing smart materials for imaging, bioelectronics, biosensing and molecular recognition applications.
Peptide Materials: From Nanostructures to Applications gives a truly interdisciplinary review, and should appeal to graduate students and researchers in the fields of materials science, nanotechnology, biomedicine and engineering as well as researchers in biomaterials and bio-inspired smart materials.Table of contentsPhysics of Peptide Nanostructures and Their Nanotechnology Applications
Chemistry of Peptide Materials
Conformational Aspects and Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Peptide Hybrid Materials
Peptronics
Molecular Architecture with Peptide Assembling for Nanomaterials
Principles of Shape-Driven Nanostructure Design via Self-Assembly of Protein Building Blocks
Peptide-Based Soft Spherical Structures
Peptide-Based Carbon Nanotube Dispersal Agents
Nanosized Vectors for Transfection Assembled from Peptides and Nucleic Acids
Properties of Disubstituted Ferrocene–Peptide Conjugates
Mechanisms of Adsorption of Short Peptides on Metal and Oxide Surfaces
Bioactive Rosette Nanotubes for Bone Tissue Engineering and Drug Delivery
Peptide Secondary Structures as Molecular Switches
Peptide Nanostructured Conjugates for Therapeutics
Identification and Application of Polymer-Binding Peptides
