Peptide-Functionalized Polymeric Materials
A special issue of Polymers (ISSN 2073-4360). This special issue belongs to the section "Polymer Chemistry".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2019) | Viewed by 560
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The recent interest in the synthesis and applications of peptide-based materials has produced diverse peptide-based polymeric architectures, hydrogels, and nanoparticles for biological applications. These peptide-based polymeric scaffolds provide a great platform to combine the biodegradable and bioactive properties of peptides with the facile synthetic approaches and higher stability of polymeric materials and are being extensively studied for various applications, such as drug delivery, bio-sensing, tissue engineering, and preparation of antibacterial and anticancer agents. The decoration of polymer backbones with peptides by pre- or post-polymerization modification techniques has resulted in excellent stimuli-responsive self-assembled and degradable biomolecules, capable of efficient molecular targeting, antifouling, and anti-cancer and antibacterial activities.
This Special Issue aims at collecting fundamental research studies on the synthesis of peptide-based polymeric materials and their applications. Original research articles and review papers on the synthesis of peptide-functionalized materials and investigations of their in vitro and in vivo biological applications including drug delivery, gene delivery, bio-sensing, antifouling, antibacterial and anticancer preparation will be accepted for publication in this Special Issue.
Prof. Marya Ahmed
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- Peptide-polymer hybrids
- Peptide-based hydrogels
- Peptide-functionalized nanoparticles
- Drug delivery
- Gene delivery
- Antifouling and stealth properties
- Antibacterial activity
- Stimuli responsiveness
- Targeting properties
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