These Hot Articles are from an upcoming Themed Issue on “Biomimetic Soft Matter” with Guest Editor Professor Ian Hamley (University of Reading and Diamond Light Source, UK). Keep an eye out for this and other Soft Matter Themed Issues here.
Proteins in biomimetic membranes: promises and facts. A Review on proteins immobilized on surfaces in different orientations to form protein-tethered bilayer lipid membranes, with the protein as the essential building block. Renate L. C. Naumann, Christoph Nowak and Wolfgang Knoll, Soft Matter, 2011, DOI: 10.1039/C1SM05626C
A reversible enzymatic trigger is reported by Samuel Stupp and co-workers, which controls the assembly and disassembly of peptide amphiphile nanostrucutres. This ability to control nanostructure through an enzymatic switch could allow for the preparation of highly sophisticated and biomimetic materials that incorporate a biological sensing capability to enable therapeutic specificity. Matthew J. Webber, Christina J. Newcomb, Ronit Bitton and Samuel I. Stupp, Soft Matter, 2011, DOI: 10.1039/C1SM05610G
These papers can be read for free until September 16.
