Researchers from the RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science (CSRS) and RIKEN Pioneering Research Institute (PRI) in Japan together with collaborators from the University of Munster, Germany, have developed a new hydrogel that offers significant advantages over others currently on the market in the field of biomaterials. Based on a single synthetic peptide called FQ(Pyr), the new hydrogel has a highly organized structure made from nanofibers that contain tiny water channels.