The scientific community has been striving for decades to generate biomimetic materials to access many of the beneficial properties seen in Nature. However, there has been limited success in obtaining structural control, catalytic activity, molecular transport, and modulated responsiveness to small perturbation. Proteins, nature's �own� building blocks, have many unique features unmatched by any synthetic organic or inorganic analogs. Rather than developing biomimetic protein-like building blocks, using natural proteins to construct functional materials will clearly change the paradigm of materials science. I will present our preliminary explorations to design, synthesize and characterize protein/peptide-based functional materials. Specifically, I will discuss our recent work on 3-helix micelles as long circulating stable nanocarriers

Toward using protein/peptide as material building block

248th National Meeting (2014)

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