Current progress of interfacing organic semiconducting materials with bacteria

SR McCuskey, J Chatsirisupachai, E Zeglio… - Chemical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Microbial bioelectronics require interfacing microorganisms with electrodes. The resulting
abiotic/biotic platforms provide the basis of a range of technologies, including energy …

Membrane-intercalating conjugated oligoelectrolytes

C Zhou, GWN Chia, KT Yong - Chemical Society Reviews, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
By acting as effective biomimetics of the lipid bilayers, membrane-intercalating conjugated
oligoelectrolytes (MICOEs) can spontaneously insert themselves into both synthetic lipid …

A broad-spectrum synthetic antibiotic that does not evoke bacterial resistance

DM Heithoff, SP Mahan, L Barnes, SA Leyn… - …, 2023 - thelancet.com
Background Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) poses a critical threat to public health and
disproportionately affects the health and well-being of persons in low-income and middle …

Real-Time Monitoring of Mitochondrial Damage Using Conjugated Oligoelectrolytes

SJW Chan, JY Zhu, WW Mia Soh… - Journal of the American …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Conjugated oligoelectrolytes (COEs) comprise a class of fluorescent reporters with tunable
optical properties and lipid bilayer affinity. These molecules have proven effective in a range …

CO/light dual-activatable Ru (ii)-conjugated oligomer agent for lysosome-targeted multimodal cancer therapeutics

M Yang, H Zhao, Z Zhang, Q Yuan, Q Feng, X Duan… - Chemical …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Stimuli-activatable and subcellular organelle-targeted agents with multimodal therapeutics
are urgently desired for highly precise and effective cancer treatment. Herein, a CO/light …

Molecular design of antimicrobial conjugated oligoelectrolytes with enhanced selectivity toward bacterial cells

J Limwongyut, C Nie, AS Moreland, GC Bazan - Chemical science, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
A series of cationic conjugated oligoelectrolytes (COEs) was designed to understand how
variations in molecular dimensions impact the relative activity against bacteria and …

Advancements and Applications of Conjugated Polyelectrolytes and Conjugated Oligoelectrolytes in Bioanalytical and Electrochemical Contexts

SJ Cox-Vázquez, B Shakir, O Medrano, D Shah… - JACS Au, 2024 - ACS Publications
In the past decade, conjugated oligoelectrolytes (COEs) and conjugated polyelectrolytes
(CPEs) have emerged at the forefront of active materials in bioanalytical and …

A conjugated oligoelectrolyte for the recognition of uranyl ion in aqueous and soil samples via RGB method

L Thakur, L Garg, I Mohiuddin, R Singh, V Kaur… - … Acta Part A: Molecular …, 2025 - Elsevier
The development of selective and practically applicable sensors for monitoring trace uranyl
ions (UO 2 2+) in an aqueous medium is the biggest challenge. This study presents the …

Organic nanoparticles with efficient and adjustable exciplex emission for biological imaging

L Liu, X Wang, S Zhu, C Yao, X Jiang, J Guo, L Li - Dyes and Pigments, 2019 - Elsevier
The mixing of donor and acceptor molecules in fluorescent nanoparticles offers an effective
route to adjusting the emission properties of the nanoparticles. In this work, the electron …

Metal-surfactant hybridize living cells to form micro-urchin with high catalytic activity

Q Lu, Y Liu, S Tao, X Cao, H Li, X Wang, J Feng… - Chemical Engineering …, 2021 - Elsevier
The cell membrane, as the supporting structure of cells, maintains the stability of the internal
microenvironment of cells for whole-cell catalysis, but is also a barrier in transmembrane …