We explored sustainable plant proteins, including cereals, legumes and oil-seeds and investigated fundamental mechanism of their self-assembling (e.g. fibrillization, polymorphism and reversibility) and FPN-bioactives interaction. These insights consolidate the rational design of structured materials for extended applications across various disciplines: 1) Functional food with improved techno-functionalities; 2) Human nutrition for delivering nutrition, drugs and bioactives; 3) Biomedical hydrogel for wound healing and tissue regeneration; 4) Functional materials for environmental science, bioelectronics and material science. 

Food protein nanofibrils (FPNs), a novel nanostructure produced from natural food proteins, e.g. milk β-lactoglobulin, egg lysozyme, oat globulin, emerged as a promising strategy for functional food and oral delivery due to their excellent intrinsic features including high aspect ratio, rich surface chemistry, outstanding mechanical strength, biocompatibility and biodegradability.