Peptides with a Rationale: Smart Biomaterials for Biomedical Innovation
A special issue of Journal of Functional Biomaterials (ISSN 2079-4983). This special issue belongs to the section "Biomaterials and Devices for Healthcare Applications".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 April 2026 | Viewed by 1836
Special Issue Editors
Interests: peptide chemistry; drug delivery; nanomaterials; anticancer peptide
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Interests: peptide; dendrimer; nanomedicine; drug delivery; nanoparticle; self-assembled peptides
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Smart and adaptive, peptide-based biomaterials function as responsive systems that react and adapt to a range of physiological, chemical, and physical stimuli. Peptides can be designed and programmed to arrange into diverse supramolecular structures with different morphologies and dimensions. Peptide-based biomaterials are super-versatile due to their biocompatibility, tunability, and ability to mimic natural biological functions. Their main applications across biomedical fields include drug delivery, tissue engineering and regeneration, biosensing and diagnostics, antimicrobial coatings, and cancer therapy. This Special Issue will showcase design strategies and peptide chemistry approaches, detailed biophysical characterization, and in vitro and in vivo biological studies for developing innovative, application-specific biomaterials in the biomedical field with applications including neurological disorders, cancer treatment, and antibiotic resistance. We invite full papers, communications, and reviews covering topics related to the keywords below.
Dr. Rosa Bellavita
Prof. Dr. Stefania Galdiero
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- self-assembled peptides
- peptide chemistry
- drug delivery
- nanomaterials
- biomedical applications
- theranostics
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