title: Materials taking a lesson from nature.
abstract: Structural biomaterials with their often extraordinary properties and versatile functions are typically constructed from very limited sets of building blocks and types of supramolecular interactions. In this review we discuss how, inspired by nature's design principles for protein-based materials, oligopeptide-modified polymers can be used as a versatile toolbox to program nanostructure and hierarchical structure formation in synthetic materials.
authors.affiliation: Laboratory of Macromolecular & Organic Materials École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne EPFL - STI - IMX - LMOM Building MXG, Room 037, Station 12 CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland; Department of Materials Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich Wolfgang-Pauli-Strasse 10 CH-8093 Zürich, Switzerland.
authors.forename: Liangfei
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Tian
authors.affiliation: Laboratory of Macromolecular & Organic Materials École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne EPFL - STI - IMX - LMOM Building MXG, Room 037, Station 12 CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland.
authors.forename: Emmanuel
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Croisier
authors.affiliation: Laboratory of Macromolecular & Organic Materials École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne EPFL - STI - IMX - LMOM Building MXG, Room 037, Station 12 CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland. holger.frauenrath@epfl.ch.
authors.forename: Holger
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Frauenrath
mesh_terms: D016229:Amyloid beta-Peptides / Q000737:chemistry; D053770:Nanowires; D019368:Nature; D009842:Oligopeptides / Q000737:chemistry
chemical_list: D016229:Amyloid beta-Peptides; D009842:Oligopeptides