Biohybridized and Biomimicking Materials

As stated in Sect. 1, a variety of studies on biohydridized and biomimicking materials have been extensively reported, though the approach of the various investigators are quite diverse, depending on their objectives (see Table 1). 

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Factors to be Controlled Biologically Derived Materials Synthetic Materials Biohybridized and Biomimicking Materials... 

Oligopeptide- or oligosaccharide-conjugate materials are the typical examples for receptor-mimicking materials, the essential feature of which, of course, is biospecificity. In addition to these examples, a number of other processes and methodologies in ongoing biomaterials research are also based upon the concept of biospecificity some explicitly and others implicitly (See Table 1). Several of these examples will be reviewed in Sect. 5 under the title of biohybridized and biomimicking materials. 

Several biohybridized and biomimicking materials were reviewed. Since Piersbacher and Ruoslahti (1984) reported that RGDS (or RGDC)-contain-ing peptides promoted attachment of rat kidney fibroblast, many researches have been carried out to prepare RGDX containing materials, which are expected to be useful as cell-attachment and/or cell-cultivating materials. 

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