Quantum dots-based “chemical tongue” for the discrimination of short-length Aβ peptides
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Bioinspired Smart Materials in Chemical Analysis - Mimicking Biomolecular Recognition
Biomimetic smart materials refer to materials designed to mimic biological systems' natural properties. These materials are playing an increasingly significant role in our daily lives, improving the quality of life of our society by participating in a wide variety of fields.
Due to their unique stimulus-response properties and autonomous behaviors, smart materials have a wide range of applications in chemical sciences, including sensing, catalysis, drug delivery, and environmental remediation. In addition, biomimetic smart materials are also essential for advances in soft micro/nano-robotics and bioelectronics, with outstanding successes in medical nanotechnologies e.g. minimally invasive surgery, point-of-care analytical devices, or smart drug delivery. In other applications, smart materials lay the foundation for artificial systems, such as biohybrid sensors, that integrate with living organisms in ways that can blur the distinction between the two. In addition, advances in nanoscience and nanotechnology now provide active components and manufacturing tools to achieve exquisite control of developments.
Overall, biomimetic smart materials have the potential to revolutionize many fields in chemical sciences, and ongoing research in this area is likely to lead to many exciting new applications in the future. On the molecular level, synthetic antibodies and enzyme mimics have greatly gained in importance over the last decade in biomimetic analytical platforms.
This Topical Collection in MCA presents a series of articles from highly reputable groups around the world in which the practical and advantageous use of Bioinspired smart materials in Chemical Sciences, with a special focus on molecular biomimicry and affinity technology for biohybrid and biomimetic sensing developments.
The collection is dedicated to the late Prof. María C. Moreno-Bondi. Her impact on science will continue to be felt through her effect on us.
Editors
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Elena Benito-Peña
Elena Benito-Peña received her PhD in Chemistry at the Complutense University of Madrid in 2006. She pursued postdoctoral research, among others with Prof. David Walt at Tufts University. She is currently a Tenure Professor in the Department of Analytical Chemistry (UCM). Her research interests include the development of luminescent optical (bio)sensors, molecularly imprinted polymers, nanomaterials, phage display techniques, epitope mimicking peptides, recombinant antibodies and their applications to food, clinical and environmental analysis. María C. Moreno-Bondi was her wonderful mentor, colleague and great friend, a mother figure to her.
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Karsten Haupt
Karsten Haupt is a Biochemist from the University of Leipzig, Germany. After obtaining a PhD in Bioengineering from Université de Technologie de Compiègne (UTC), France, he was a researcher at Lund University, Sweden and at INSERM, Paris, and an assistant professor at the University of Paris 12. Since 2003 he has been a full professor of Bioengineering at UTC. His present research interests include affinity technology, chemical sensors, synthetic antibodies (molecularly imprinted polymers), and nanomaterials for biomedical applications. María C Moreno-Bondi has always been a great friend and favorite collaborator.
