Saccharide-Peptide Hybrid Copolymers as Biomaterials

摘要

Biomaterials are important for many biomedical applications such as implants and prosthetics,pharmaceutical formulations,drug and gene-delivery agents,DNA and protein microarrays,and tissue engineering.Synthetic polymers remain the most versatile class of biomaterials because of the ease in controlling their compositions,structures,and properties.There is currently a great demand for novel polymeric biomaterials with tailored structures and more-defined functions.Ideally,desired biomaterials can be chemically synthesized in a ground-up approach to exhibit precisely the needed chemical,biological,and engineering properties for the targeted medical application.