Main description:

Bioinspired concepts are becoming increasingly integrated into materials and devices intended for medical applications. Biological organisms evolve within specific environmental constraints, giving rise to elegant and efficient strategies for fabricating materials that often outperform man-made materials of similar composition. A main goal of the interdisciplinary field of bioinspired materials is to unlock the secrets of this process-the composition, processing,
self-assembly, hierarchical organization, and properties of biological materials-and use this information to synthesize and engineer novel functional materials for a variety of practical applications.

The authors are from a variety of scientific disciplines, including biology, biochemistry, chemistry, physics, materials science, mechanical engineering, and bioengineering. This book will appeal to readers interested in the cross-disciplinary fertilization of new ideas in this emerging field. The first volume of this book includes sections focused on the bioinspired approaches using biological macromolecules including poly(nucleic acids), polypeptides, and the derivatives. Both volumes cover
the interdisciplinary fields of biological, synthetic, and the hybrid materials and describe their medical applications ranging from molecular to cellular levels.

Contents:

Preface

DNA/Protein/Peptide Self-Assembly

1. TRAPped Structures: Making Artificial Cages with a Ring Protein
2. Integrated Nanostructures Based on Self-Assembled Amphiphilic Polypeptides
3. Peptides as Smart Biomolecular Tools: Utilization of Their Molecular Recognition for Materials Engineering
4. DNA Condensed Phase and DNA-Inorganic Hybrid Mesostructured Materials

Polypeptide and Engineered Proteins

5. Adhesive Growth Factors Inspired by Underwater Adhesion Proteins
6. Polypeptides and Engineered Proteins
7. Protein Self-Assembly: From Programming Arrays to Bioinspired Materials
8. Controlled Syntheses of Functional Polypeptides

Catechols/Dopamine Derivatives

9. Bioinspired Wear-Protective Coatings for Osteoarthritis
10. Catechol Redox Reaction: Reactive Oxygen Species Generation, Regulation, and Biomedical Applications
Editors' Biographies
Indexes