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Ba um alginate Brown algae Microencapsulation of live cells biohybrid organs... 

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The application potential of polypeptide copolymers has also not been exhausted. Most studies deal with ordinary micelles for the controlled delivery of drugs or genes. Not much attention has, for whatever reason, been paid to other colloidal systems like for instance emulsions, polymer latexes, and inorganic-organic biohybrid nanoparticles. 

The development of artificial organs and biohybrid systems has been significantly influenced by three core areas in nanotechnology and bionanotechnology [24] ... 

Some of these basic strategies can be also adapted to create biohybrid materials consisting of peptides or proteins and synthetic organic polymer units (Section 5.5.3). 

In the following we will briefly describe some selected examples of biohybrid structures and networks consisting of synthetic organic polymers and polynucleotides, polypeptides/proteins, and/or polysaccharides with focus on biomedical applications. In order to provide multifunctional biohybrid materials with the optimal combination of mechanical, biological, and stmctural properties for particular purposes, different design aspects must be considered. 

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