Biomimicking materials

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. 

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). 

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. 

Otero, T.E 2000. Biomimicking materials with smart polymers. In Structural biological materials. Design and structure-properties relationships, ed. M. Elices and R.W. Cahn, 187-220. Amsterdam Pergamon Materials Series. 

Sarikaya, I. and Askay, I. A. Design and Processing Materials by Biomimicking. American Institute of Physics, New York, NY, USA, 1994. 

Biomimicking properties are present not only in films but also in fibers produced from cellulosic materials in the liquid crystal phase. These biomimetic fibers, when compared with films, have the advantage of having a much higher surface area and were produced for the first time by Canejo et at [88] using electrospinning. 

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