Biologically inspired

Peptide Hydrogels Through Biologically Inspired Self-Assembly. 144... 

Spontaneous Emergence of Periodic Patterns in a Biologically Inspired Simulation of Photonic Structures. 

In general, the population will contain chromosomes with different fitness, and the GA strategy is to produce better populations (evolving of the population). A next population is obtained by biologically inspired actions as follows ... 

Presently, specific immobilization of various enzymes is studied under the aspect of the orientation and the local surface environments. The deeper understanding of biocatalytic systems together with suitable surface coating techniques may lead to biologically inspired and more complex catalytic systems grafted on solid supports. 

Berti, D. (2006). Self assembly of biologically inspired amphiphiles. Current Opinion in Colloid and Interface Science, 11, 74-78. 

The catalytic properties of Mn enzyme structural models are not limited to the natural substrates of the enzymes they mimic. One could classify this catalysis based upon the substrates as biological mimetic catalysis or biomimetic catalysis [175] and biologically inspired catalysis or bioinspired catalysis [176], Unlike biomimetic catalysis, its bioinspired counterpart capitalizes on nature s findings to change nonnatural substrates chemically and, perhaps, unravel novel chemistry. 

Biologically Inspired Materials via Multi-step Self-assembly... 

Chemical Approaches for the Preparation of Biologically-inspired Supramolecular Architectures and Advanced Polymeric Materials... 

So far, peptide synthesis has mainly involved the preparation of biologically or pharmaceutically relevant substances, total chemical synthesis of natural proteins or protein engineering. The objective of this chapter is to show how the different methods that have been developed for peptide synthesis can be used to prepare biologically-inspired supramolecular architectures and polymeric materials, which might be of potential interest for a variety of advanced applications. 

Peptide ligation strategies used so far have mainly been used for protein total synthesis and protein engineering purposes. The ability to prepare perfectly mono-disperse and relatively high molar mass peptides with precise control over the a-amino acid sequence could also afford unprecedented opportunities for the development of novel biologically-inspired supramolecular architectures and materials. As a final, recent, example, the preparation of a protein[2]catenane using NCL is shown in Figure 6.6.5 [34]. 

An interesting approach to the design of biomaterials and biologically inspired materials is to combine the best features of synthetic and biological polymers into copolymers (Klok, 2005 Vandermeulen and Klok, 2004). Thus, peptide sequences may be used to create self-assembled structural motifs at the nanoscale, most commonly [3-sheets or a-helices, while the... 

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