Rationally designed chimeric solid‐binding peptides for tailoring solid interfaces

Abstract

Joining biology with materials science requires the ability to design, engineer and control biology/solid-state materials interfaces at the molecular level. The specific molecular interactions that take place among biomolecules, known as molecular recognition, enable all aspects of molecular processes in living systems prerequisite to the biological functions. Having the ability to establish specific biological interactions between the solid materials and biological constituents is essential for precise design of biologically viable soft interfaces that are molecularly tailored at solid surfaces. Solid-binding peptides offer excellent opportunities in surface biofunctionalization over the traditionally utilized chemical approaches