Sequential templating approach: a groundbreaking strategy to create hollow multishelled structures

D Mao, J Wan, J Wang, D Wang - Advanced Materials, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Thanks to their distinguished properties such as optimized specific surface area, low density,
high loading capacity, and sequential matter transfer and storage, hollow multishelled …

From structure to function: pH-switchable antimicrobial nano-self-assemblies

M Gontsarik, A Yaghmur, Q Ren… - … applied materials & …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Stimuli-responsive nanocarriers based on lipid self-assemblies have the potential to provide
targeted delivery of antimicrobial peptides, limiting their side effects while protecting them …

Supramolecular nanostructures as drug carriers

R Lin, H Cui - Current opinion in chemical engineering, 2015 - Elsevier
Highlights•Anticancer drugs could serve as part of the building units to promote molecular
assembly.•Drug amphiphiles could create discrete nanostructures with a high and fixed drug …

[HTML][HTML] Multirate delivery of multiple therapeutic agents from metal-organic frameworks

AC McKinlay, PK Allan, CL Renouf, MJ Duncan… - APL Materials, 2014 - pubs.aip.org
The highly porous nature of metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) offers great potential for the
delivery of therapeutic agents. Here, we show that highly porous metal-organic frameworks …

A versatile stimulus-responsive metal–organic framework for size/morphology tunable hollow mesoporous silica and pH-triggered drug delivery

Z Zou, S Li, D He, X He, K Wang, L Li… - Journal of Materials …, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
Metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) have spurred tremendous research interest in the fields
of nanoscience and nanotechnology. However, exploring their biomedical applications is …

Engineering proteinosomes with renewable predatory behaviour towards living organisms

C Zhao, M Zhu, Y Fang, X Liu, L Wang, D Chen… - Materials …, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Communication is a fundamental feature of life, and all living organisms interact actively with
their surroundings to better their chance of survival through the coordination of group …

Architecturally designed sequential-release hydrogels

D Zhang, Z Li, L Yang, H Ma, H Chen, X Zeng - Biomaterials, 2023 - Elsevier
Drug synergy has made significant strides in clinical applications in recent decades.
However, achieving a platform that enables “single administration, multi-stage release” by …

A bioinspired hierarchical nanoplatform targeting and responding to intracellular pathogens to eradicate parasitic infections

Y Yu, J Li, Y Zhang, Z Ma, H Sun, X Wei, Y Bai, Z Wu… - Biomaterials, 2022 - Elsevier
Intracellular bacteria-mediated antibiotic tolerance, which acts as a “Trojan horse,” plays a
critical and underappreciated role in chronic and recurrent infections. Failure of conventional …

Engineering multi-compartment vesicle networks

Y Elani, A Gee, RV Law, O Ces - Chemical Science, 2013 - pubs.rsc.org
Vesicles serve important functions in the construction of artificial cells. They facilitate
biochemical reactions by confining reactants and products in space, and delineate the …

Intestine-on-a-chip microfluidic model for efficient in vitro screening of oral chemotherapeutic uptake

K Pocock, L Delon, V Bala, S Rao, C Priest… - ACS biomaterials …, 2017 - ACS Publications
Many highly effective chemotherapeutic agents can only be administered intravenously as
their oral delivery is compromised by low gastro-intestinal solubility and permeability. SN-38 …