Biomimetic soft matter


Autoria(s): Hamley, Ian
Data(s)

21/10/2011

Resumo

Biomaterials are often soft materials. There is now growing interest in designing, synthesizing and characterising soft materials that mimic the properties of biological materials such as tissue, proteins, DNA or cells. Research on biomimetic soft matter is therefore a developing theme with important emerging applications in biomedicine including tissue engineering, diagnostics, gene therapy, drug delivery and many others. There are also important basic science questions concerning the use of concepts from colloid and polymer science to understand the self-assembly of biomimetic soft materials. This issue of Soft Matter presents a selection of extremely topical articles on a diversity of biomimetic soft matter systems. I thank the contributors for this quite remarkable collection of papers, which report many fascinating discoveries and insights.

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http://centaur.reading.ac.uk/23772/2/SoftMatterGuestEditorial.pdf

Hamley, I. <http://centaur.reading.ac.uk/view/creators/90000472.html> (2011) Biomimetic soft matter. Soft Matter, 7 (20). pp. 9533-9534. ISSN 1744-683X doi: 10.1039/c1sm90064a <http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/c1sm90064a>

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en

Publicador

Royal Society of Chemistry

Relação

http://centaur.reading.ac.uk/23772/

creatorInternal Hamley, Ian

http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/c1sm90064a

10.1039/c1sm90064a

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Article

PeerReviewed