Huge thanks to @joao-borges.bsky.social for inviting me to be a part of this work, and of course to my lead co-author Vera Sousa. Further acknowledgments to fellow co-authors J.F. Mano, E.W. Meijer, P. Dankers, S. Lecommandeaux and E. Garanger for lending their extensive expertise to this article.

In this Perspective, we reflect on the history of both Nature-derived and synthetic supramolecular biomaterials, the race to recreate the extracellular matrix, and potential avenues for scientists from the natural and supramolecular worlds to join forces so that we may achieve our common goal.

Anyway, that’s enough chattering from me. As part of my deal with the Universe, I now have to go update my LinkedIn, so please excuse me.

Hello, everyone, I’m Bruno, currently a PhD student from Portugal! From now on, I will be sharing my research here, and I will try to help share the work of other researchers that I may come across, both from within my field, or from completely different fields, so please stay tuned!