Self-Assembly Peptide Nanostructures
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Nanotechnology and Applied Nanosciences".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 July 2018) | Viewed by 3020
Special Issue Editor
Interests: peptide and protein nanotechnology; peptide materials; spectroscopy of biomolecules; peptide self-assembly; porphyrin aggregation and nanostructures
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Dear Colleagues,
In the last few years, peptide nanostructures have seen an explosion of interest, caused by extensive application in biomedicine (tissue engineering, antimicrobial activity, therapeutic peptides and vaccines, peptide-assisted drug delivery) and in bio-inspired nanotechnology (peptide-inorganic hybrids, peptide nanoparticles, peptide quantum dots). On the fundamental side, remarkable advancement of the knowledge of the mechanisms governing peptide self-assembly for generating nanostructures of different morphology (self-assembled monolayers, nanotubes, fibrils, nanowires) has also been achieved.
The control of the morphology of peptide aggregates at the nano- and mesoscale is crucial for application, linking complexity to function. In this connection, hierarchical self-assembly (i.e. the spontaneous association of molecular building blocks that achieves a different level of structural organization at each aggregation step) represents the most suitable approach for obtaining supramolecular architectures of specific shape and dimension.
This Special Issue aims to highlight the state-of-art of the research activity on the design and utilization of peptide nanostructures, gathering a collection of distinctive reviews and research articles concerning both fundamental and applicative aspects of the field.
I am confident that this publication will be of interest not only for the restricted community of peptide scientists, but it will intercept the attention of the broader interdisciplinary audience working on biomedicine and bionanotechnology.
Prof. Dr. Mariano Venanzi
Guest Editor
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Keywords
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biomedicine
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bionanotechnology
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hierarchical self-assembly
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peptide aggregation
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peptide materials
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peptide nanostructures
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peptide self-assembly
