Rate My Professor Adam Martin

Martin's research specializes in structure-property relationships for short, self-assembling peptides, tuning chemical and mechanical properties of hydrogels via peptide sequence and N-terminus modifications, and rational design of biocompatible hydrogel scaffolds for tissue engineering that support various cell types, including sensitive primary neurons. He develops 3D neuronal cell culture scaffolds to gain insights into neurodegenerative diseases, functionalizes hydrogels with ECM-ligating peptides for macromolecule capture, explores self-assembling short peptides as transfection reagents, and controls temporal hydrogel scaffold degradation for cell profiling. Key publications include 'Hydrogels with intrinsic antibacterial activity prepared from naphthyl anthranilamide (NaA) capped peptide mimics' (Scientific Reports, 2022), 'Lanthanide-based β-tricalcium phosphate upconversion nanoparticles as an effective theranostic nonviral vectors for image-guided gene therapy' (Nanotheranostics, 2022), 'Recent progress in synthetic self-adjuvanting vaccine development' (Biomaterials Science, 2022), 'A dendronised polymer architecture breaks the conventional inverse relationship between porosity and mechanical properties of hydrogels' (Chemical Communications, 2021), and contributions to the 'Global root traits (GRooT) database' (Global Ecology and Biogeography, 2021).