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Tuning peptide-based hydrogels: co-assembly with composites driving the highway to technological applications
| Resumo: | Self-assembled peptide-based gels provide several advantages for technological applications. Recently, the co-assembly of gelators has been a strategy to modulate and tune gel properties and even implement stimuli-responsiveness. However, it still comprises limitations regarding the required library of compounds and outcoming properties. Hence, efforts have been made to combine peptide-based gels and (in)organic composites (e.g., magnetic nanoparticles, metal nanoparticles, liposomes, graphene, silica, clay, titanium dioxide, cadmium sulfide) to endow stimuli-responsive materials and achieve suitable properties in several fields ranging from optoelectronics to biomedical. Herein, we discuss the recent developments with composite peptide-based gels including the fabrication, tunability of gels' properties, and challenges on (bio)technological applications. |
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| Autores principais: | Gomes, Valéria |
| Outros Autores: | Veloso, Sérgio R. S.; Correa-Duarte, Miguel A.; Ferreira, Paula M. T.; Castanheira, Elisabete M. S. |
| Assunto: | Peptides Liposomes Hydrogels peptide-based composite hydrogels magnetic nanoparticles metal nanoparticles graphene clay nanoparticles Ciências Naturais::Ciências Físicas Engenharia e Tecnologia::Engenharia dos Materiais Engenharia e Tecnologia::Nanotecnologia Saúde de qualidade Energias renováveis e acessíveis Proteger a vida terrestre |
| Ano: | 2023 |
| País: | Portugal |
| Tipo de documento: | artigo |
| Tipo de acesso: | acesso aberto |
| Instituição associada: | Universidade do Minho |
| Idioma: | inglês |
| Origem: | RepositóriUM - Universidade do Minho |
| Resumo: | Self-assembled peptide-based gels provide several advantages for technological applications. Recently, the co-assembly of gelators has been a strategy to modulate and tune gel properties and even implement stimuli-responsiveness. However, it still comprises limitations regarding the required library of compounds and outcoming properties. Hence, efforts have been made to combine peptide-based gels and (in)organic composites (e.g., magnetic nanoparticles, metal nanoparticles, liposomes, graphene, silica, clay, titanium dioxide, cadmium sulfide) to endow stimuli-responsive materials and achieve suitable properties in several fields ranging from optoelectronics to biomedical. Herein, we discuss the recent developments with composite peptide-based gels including the fabrication, tunability of gels' properties, and challenges on (bio)technological applications. |
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