Emerging Applications of Multifunctional Elastin-Like Recombinamers
2010; Future Medicine; Volume: 6; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês
10.2217/nnm.10.141
ISSN1748-6963
AutoresJosé Carlos Rodríguez‐Cabello, Laura Martín, Alessandra Girotti, Carmen García‐Arévalo, Francisco Javier Arias, Matilde Alonso,
Tópico(s)Diatoms and Algae Research
ResumoElastin-like recombinamers have grown in popularity in the field of protein-inspired biomimetic materials and have found widespread use in biomedical applications. Modern genetic-engineering techniques have allowed the design of multifunctional materials with an extraordinary control over their architecture and physicochemical properties, such as stimuli-responsiveness, monodispersity, biocompatibility or self-assembly, amongst others. Indeed, these materials are playing an increasingly important role in a diverse range of applications, such as drug delivery, tissue engineering and 'smart' systems. Herein, we review some of the most interesting examples of recent advances and progressive applications of elastin-like recombinamers in biomaterial and nano-engineering sciences in recent years.
Referência(s)