Protein Biopolymers for Drug Delivery
A special issue of Polymers (ISSN 2073-4360). This special issue belongs to the section "Biobased and Biodegradable Polymers".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 November 2022) | Viewed by 449
Special Issue Editor
Interests: bioorganic supramolecule; bioconjugation chemistry; bioanalysis; supramolecular assembly
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Dear Colleagues,
Protein biopolymers are important functional materials in nature. Protein biopolymers are desirable monodisperse nanomaterials and play a key role in chemistry and biochemistry. Their nanoscale dimensions endow them with a regular interior or exterior surface that can order distinct organic/inorganic materials. They are also of significance to the study of molecular interactions, such as ligand–receptor interactions in solution and on interfaces. Thus, they have found a wide range of applications in a number of fields (e.g., catalysis, imaging, sensors, drug delivery, therapy, diagnosis). For these reasons, research on new protein biopolymers, or new methods for obtaining protein biopolymers with novel properties and applications is a hot topic that is rapidly evolving in multidisciplinary fields.
This Special Issue is devoted to the most recent research on these topics, covering all aspects concerning the structural modification and application of protein biopolymers.
Dr. Chunxi Hou
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- protein micelle
- protein vesicle
- bioimaging
- synthetic methods
- biosensors
- biomaterials
- drug delivery
- protein-polymer nanostructure
- biopackaging
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