Author(s):
Pereira, Ana Margarida Macedo Bernardes ; Machado, Raul ; Costa, André Manuel Abreu ; Ribeiro, Artur J. ; Collins, Tony ; Gomes, Andreia C ; Leonor, I. B. ; Kaplan, D.L. ; Reis, R. L. ; Casal, Margarida
Date: 2016
Persistent ID: https://hdl.handle.net/1822/46185
Origin: RepositóriUM - Universidade do Minho
Project/scholarship:
info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/FCT/5876-PPCDTI/109093/PT
;
info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/FCT/5876/135919/PT;
info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/FCT/5876/147364/PT;
info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/FCT/SFRH/SFRH%2FBPD%2F98388%2F2013/PT;
info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/FCT/SFRH/SFRH%2FBPD%2F86470%2F2012/PT;
info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/FCT/SFRH/SFRH%2FBD%2F75882%2F2011/PT;
Subject(s): Ciências Naturais::Outras Ciências Naturais
Description
[Excerpt] Recombinant protein-based polymers (rPBPs) are an emerging class of biopolymers inspired by Nature and produced by synthetic protein biotechnology approaches. Due to their exceptional physical-chemical and biological characteristics, as well as their ability to be customized for specific applications, rPBPs have been explored for the development of advanced biomaterials [1]. Within rPBPs, silk-like polymers (SLP) are being utilized in a range of studies in materials science [2]. [...]
This work was supported by FCT Funded Project “Chimera” (PTDC/EBB-EBI/109093/2008), by FCT/MEC through Portuguese funds (PIDDAC) – PEst-OE/BIA/UI4050/2014, by the strategic programme UID/BIA/04050/2013 (POCI-01-0145-FEDER-007569) funded by national funds through the FCT I.P. and by the ERDF through COMPETE2020 - Programa Operacional Competitividade e Internacionalização (POCI). TC is thankful to the FCT for its support through Investigador FCT 2015. ARibeiro thanks FCT for the SFRH/BPD/98388/2013 grant. RMachado and AdaCosta acknowledge FCT for SFRH-BPD/86470/2012 and SFRH/BD/75882/2011 grants, respectively.
