During the last number of years a variety of crystallization-driven self-assembly (CDSA) processes based on semicrystalline block copolymers have been developed to prepare a number of different nanomorphologies in solution ...

The thermally-induced helix-coil transition in polyamino acids is a good model for determining the helix-forming propensities of amino acids but not for the two-state folding/unfolding transition in globular proteins. The ...

A method for the synthesis of a linear block copolymer (PNIPAM-b-PANI), containing a thermoresponsive block (poly(N-isopropylacrylamide), PNIPAM) and a Near Infrared (NIR) light-absorbing block (polyaniline, PANI), is ...

The internal structure of polystyrene(PS)-shell micelles having core-forming blocks consisting of polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) or poly[5-(N,N-diethylamino)isoprene] (PAI) was determined in detail by accessing the multilevel ...

Hydrodynamic flow in the spider duct induces conformational changes in dragline spider silk proteins (spidroins) and drives their assembly, but the underlying physical mechanisms are still elusive. Here we address this ...

The first chapter reviews the most important aspects of the polymeric vectors used in gene therapy. This type of therapy involves the introduction of genetic material into specific cells to treat certain diseases, using ...