We are pleased to invite you to participate in a Discovery Molecules Collection entitled "Peptides from de novo design: functional, structural and biotechnological details". The focus of this collection is to increase the knowledge of peptide molecules as potential pharmaceutical agents or structural elements for the construction of supramolecular materials at nanometric, micrometric and macroscopic scales. This collection aims to collect original research articles, reviews and short communications dealing with the de novo design and synthesis of peptides and peptidomimetics using green and innovative approaches. The discovery, by reductionist approaches, of peptides derived from proteins playing physiological or pathological roles in vivo, together with the evaluation of their biological activity, will also represent an accepted item. Research products aimed at investigating the functional, structural and applicative prospects of naturally occurring or de novo engineered peptides and peptide derivatives will be of interest to the journal. We especially welcome papers focusing on bioactive peptides, peptidomimetics and their analogs, such as peptide recognition receptors, and self-assembling peptides. Therefore, the scope of this collection includes the potential applications of peptide entities as molecular therapeutics, drug delivery platforms, biosensors, vaccines, biomaterials, and self-assembling systems. We hope that this collection may represent a virtual place for the global peptide community to collect, communicate and dissent the latest developments in peptide research sciences in a multidisciplinary scenario. Please join us in sharing your research, discoveries and other advances in peptide design, nanomedicine, peptide engineering and applications with the scientific community.

Keywords: Peptides, peptide materials, peptidomimetics, self-assembly, bioactive peptides, green chemistry, homing peptides, antimicrobial peptides, drug delievery, diagnostics, nanomedicine.

This Collection supports and amplifies research related to SDG 3, SDG 9.