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Peptide Materials
The May 2013 special issue of Polymer Journal on Peptide Materials features a collection of distinctive reviews and articles that discuss peptide materials and their applications. The accompanying web focus offers access to relevant articles selected from across Nature Publishing Group to provide further insights to readers of the special issue.
Articles
Versatile peptide rafts for conjugate morphologies by self-assembling amphiphilic helical peptides FREE
Motoki Ueda, Akira Makino, Tomoya Imai, Junji Sugiyama & Shunsaku Kimura
Polymer Journal (2013) 45 509–515; doi:10.1038/pj.2013.4
Peptide-based targeting strategies for simultaneous imaging and therapy with nanovectors FREE
Antonella Accardo, Diego Tesauro & Giancarlo Morelli
Polymer Journal (2013) 45 481–493; doi:10.1038/pj.2012.215
Guest-binding behavior of peptide nanocapsules self-assembled from viral peptide fragments FREE
Kazunori Matsuura, Kenta Watanabe, Yoshihiro Matsushita & Nobuo Kimizuka
Polymer Journal (2013) 45 529–534 doi:10.1038/pj.2012.235
Fabrication of novel biomaterials through molecular self-assembly
Shuguang Zhang
Nature Biotechnology (2003) 21 1171–1178 doi:10.1038/nbt874
Surface modification of stereoregular and stereocomplex poly(methyl methacrylate) films with biologically identified peptides FREE
Takaaki Date, Satomi Yoshino, Hisao Matsuno & Takeshi Serizawa
Polymer Journal (2012) 44 366–369 doi:10.1038/pj.2011.147
β-Sheet peptide-assisted polymerization of diacetylene at the air–water interface and thermochromic property FREE
Tomoyuki Koga, Tomohisa Taguchi & Nobuyuki Higashi
Polymer Journal (2012) 44 195–199; doi:10.1038/pj.2011.105