Biomimetic Materials And Design : Biointerfacial Strategies, Tissue Engineering And Targeted Drug Delivery

Biointerfacial strategies: the use of supported thin films of peptide amphiphiles as model systems of the extracellular matrix to study the effects of structure-function phenomena on cell adhesion engineering of integrin-specific biomimetic surfacesto control cell adhesion and function. Tissue engineering: biomaterials - synthetic and engineering strategies scaffolds for directing cellular responses and tissue formation. Targeted drug delivery: micropatterning biomimetic materials for bioadhesionand drug delivery bioinspired engineering of intelligent drug delivery systems and protein-polymer conjugates.