Membrane-based biomolecular smart materials

作者：Sarles Stephen A^*; Leo Donald J

来源：Smart Materials and Structures, 2011, 20(9): 094018.

DOI：10.1088/0964-1726/20/9/094018

Membrane-based biomolecular materials are a new class of smart material that feature networks of artificial lipid bilayers contained within durable synthetic substrates. Bilayers contained within this modular material platform provide an environment that can be tailored to host an enormous diversity of functional biomolecules, where the functionality of the global material system depends on the type(s) and organization(s) of the biomolecules that are chosen. In this paper, we review a series of biomolecular material platforms developed recently within the Leo Group at Virginia Tech and we discuss several novel coupling mechanisms provided by these hybrid material systems. The platforms developed demonstrate that the functions of biomolecules and the properties of synthetic materials can be combined to operate in concert, and the examples provided demonstrate how the formation and properties of a lipid bilayer can respond to a variety of stimuli including mechanical forces and electric fields.

• 出版日期2011-9
• 单位Virginia Tech; 美国弗吉尼亚理工大学(Virginia Tech)