This thesis describes development of nanoparticle-based liquid sensors and coatings for droplet-based bioassays. Liquid sensors were produced from mesostructured (2-50 nm) hybrid silica nanoparticles. Detection of trace ...

Nature is an inspirational school for materials scientists. Natural selection process puts a massive pressure on biological organisms giving rise to effective strategies for fabricating materials, which generally outperform ...

Biomaterials obtained through self-assembling process of peptide amphiphile (PA) molecules provide great potential to introduce new therapeutic approaches in regenerative medicine through mimicking the natural environments ...

Self-assembling peptides are a class of supramolecular polymers, which exploit noncovalent interactions such as hydrogen bonding, hydrophobic, electrostatic, charge-transfer complex, π-π, and van der Waals interactions to ...

Angiogenesis is important in many diseases, such as diabetic wound healing, cancer and corneal neovascularization. Angiogenesis can be induced or inhibited by complex biological systems. Mimicking the complexity in natural ...

Electrospinning is a widely used versatile method to produce nanofibers with high surface to volume ratio and porous structure. Owing to the unique properties, electrospun nanofibers are of great importance as a carrier ...

Electrospinning is an easy and economical production technique to produce nanofiber/nanofibrous webs from different polymers, polymer mixtures, inorganic materials, supramolecular structures and composite materials. These ...

Polybenzoxazines are newly developing phenolic type thermoset resins having fascinating properties which overcome the shortcomings of the traditional resins. In recent years, polybenzoxazines are attracting much interest ...

The development of miniaturized analytical systems brought several examples of novel platforms for a variety of applications in medical diagnostics, food safety, biodefense, agricultural and environmental monitoring. ...

Self-assembly is a nature inspired novel engineering tool to build functional new generation of adaptable and complex biomaterials with variety of chemical and physical properties based on recent discoveries at the ...