Bioinspired Materials for Sensor and Clinical Applications: Two Case Studies

The growing interest in bio-inspired materials is driven by the need for increasingly targeted and efficient devices that also have a low ecological impact. These devices often use specially developed materials (e.g., polymers, aptamers, monoclonal antibodies) capable of carrying out the process of...

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Published inChemosensors Vol. 11; no. 3; p. 195
Main Authors Alfinito, Eleonora, Ciccarese, Mariangela, Maruccio, Giuseppe, Monteduro, Anna Grazia, Rizzato, Silvia
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Basel MDPI AG 01.03.2023
Subjects
Amino acids
antibody
aptamer
Aptamers
Biomaterials
Biomedical materials
Biomimetics
Biomolecules
biosensors
Case studies
Computer applications
Cytokines
Interleukin 6
Ligands
MIPs
Monoclonal antibodies
Polymerization
Production processes
Thrombin
United States
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Summary:The growing interest in bio-inspired materials is driven by the need for increasingly targeted and efficient devices that also have a low ecological impact. These devices often use specially developed materials (e.g., polymers, aptamers, monoclonal antibodies) capable of carrying out the process of recognizing and capturing a specific target in a similar way to biomaterials of natural origin. In this article, we present two case studies, in which the target is a biomolecule of medical interest, in particular, α-thrombin and cytokine IL-6. In these examples, different biomaterials are compared to establish, with a theoretical-computational procedure known as proteotronics, which of them has the greatest potential for use in a biodevice.
ISSN:2227-9040
2227-9040
DOI:10.3390/chemosensors11030195