“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…” Read the full Editorial by Guest Editor, Ian Hamley.
View the whole Biomimetic Soft Matter Themed Issue on-line now.
The issue contains Review articles across the following topics of biomimetic soft matter:
- Proteins in biomimetic membranes
- The physics of tissue patterning and extracellular matrix organisation
- Chemically well-defined self-assembled monolayers for cell culture
- Structural properties of soluble peptide amphiphile micelles
- Spider silks
- Biomimetic fabrication of information-rich phenolic-chitosan films
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