Assembly and Biological Applications of Biopolymers

Dear Colleagues,

Biopolymers have been developed into the “engineering-up” building blocks of functional biomaterials in biological and biomedical fields. It is gratifying that a number of works have demonstrated the performance improvements of biopolymer-based materials. Through rational design and ingenious construction, biopolymers (e.g., polysaccharides, polypeptides, nucleic acids and/or composites) are modularly assembled into a multifunctional integrated system in a “bottom-up” mode. There have been many advancements showing the broad biological applications of biopolymer-based assembly systems, including biosensing, imaging, tumor treatment, immunomodulation, and many other application scenarios, thus promoting the development of nanomedicine and personalized medicine.

This Special Issue on “Assembly and Biological Applications of Biopolymers” seeks high-quality works focusing on the latest novel advances in biopolymer assembly and functional materials for biological applications. Topics include, but are not limited to:

• Biopolymer functional materials (polysaccharides, polypeptides, nucleic acids and/or composites) and their biological application;
• Controlled assembly of biopolymer-based systems and quantitative structure–activity relationships;
• “Engineering up” nanotechnology utilizing biopolymers as construction materials;
• Biopolymer-based drug development, clinical transformation and computational simulation.

Prof. Dr. Feng Li
Guest Editor

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• biopolymers
• biomaterials
• assembly
• biological application
• biotechnology