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De Novo Design of Functional Co-Assembling Organic-Inorganic Hydrogels for Hierarchical Mineralization and Neovascularization (2021)
Journal Article
Okesola, B. O., Mendoza-Martinez, A. K., Cidonio, G., Derkus, B., Boccorh, D. K., Osuna de la Peña, D., Elsharkawy, S., Wu, Y., Dawson, J. I., Wark, A. W., Knani, D., Adams, D. J., Oreffo, R. O., & Mata, A. (2021). De Novo Design of Functional Co-Assembling Organic-Inorganic Hydrogels for Hierarchical Mineralization and Neovascularization. ACS Nano, 15(7), 11202–11217. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsnano.0c09814

Synthetic nanostructured materials incorporating both organic and inorganic components offer a unique, powerful and versatile class of materials for widespread applications due to the distinct, yet complementary, nature of the intrinsic properties of... Read More about De Novo Design of Functional Co-Assembling Organic-Inorganic Hydrogels for Hierarchical Mineralization and Neovascularization.

Protein disorder–order interplay to guide the growth of hierarchical mineralized structures (2018)
Journal Article
Elsharkawy, S., Al-Jawad, M., Pantano, M. F., Tejeda-Montes, E., Mehta, K., Jamal, H., Agarwal, S., Shuturminska, K., Rice, A., Tarakina, N. V., Wilson, R. M., Bushby, A. J., Alonso, M., Rodriguez-Cabello, J. C., Barbieri, E., del Río Hernández, A., Stevens, M. M., Pugno, N. M., Anderson, P., & Mata, A. (2018). Protein disorder–order interplay to guide the growth of hierarchical mineralized structures. Nature Communications, 9, Article 2145. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-04319-0

A major goal in materials science is to develop bioinspired functional materials based on the precise control of molecular building blocks across length scales. Here we report a protein-mediated mineralization process that takes advantage of disorder... Read More about Protein disorder–order interplay to guide the growth of hierarchical mineralized structures.