[HTML][HTML] Polyoxovanadates with emerging biomedical activities

M Aureliano, NI Gumerova, G Sciortino… - Coordination Chemistry …, 2021 - Elsevier
Polyoxovanadates (POVs) are a subclass of a larger family of polyanionic group V and VI
metal-oxo clusters that are known as polyoxometalates (POMs). POMs have been found to …

Recent Advances and Future Developments in the Preparation of Polypeptides via N-Carboxyanhydride (NCA) Ring-Opening Polymerization

Y Wu, K Chen, J Wang, M Chen, W Dai… - Journal of the American …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Polypeptides have the same or similar backbone structures as proteins and peptides,
rendering them as suitable and important biomaterials. Amino acid N-carboxyanhydrides …

[HTML][HTML] Therapeutic strategies against bacterial biofilms

Y Bi, G Xia, C Shi, J Wan, L Liu, Y Chen, Y Wu… - Fundamental …, 2021 - Elsevier
The emergence of multi-drug resistance makes bacterial infection a major threat to public
health and economy. The formation of bacterial biofilms is one of the main reasons of …

Exploiting interactions between polyoxometalates and proteins for applications in (bio) chemistry and medicine

S Lentink, DE Salazar Marcano… - Angewandte …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The specific interactions of anionic metal‐oxo clusters, known as polyoxometalates (POMs),
with proteins can be leveraged for a wide range of analytical and biomedical applications …

Polyoxometalate nanomaterials for enhanced reactive oxygen species theranostics

J Liu, M Huang, X Zhang, Z Hua, Z Feng, Y Dong… - Coordination Chemistry …, 2022 - Elsevier
The dual effects of reactive oxygen species (ROS) on living organisms have become a hot
research topic in the biomedical field. Excessive ROS triggers oxidative imbalances in the …

Progress in polymer single-chain based hybrid nanoparticles

Y Shao, Z Yang - Progress in Polymer Science, 2022 - Elsevier
Precise control of molecular hierarchical organization has endowed biological systems with
unique functions, which inspires great efforts in the synthesis of artificial mimics. Polymeric …

A nanoscale MOF-based heterogeneous catalytic system for the polymerization of N-carboxyanhydrides enables direct routes toward both polypeptides and related …

Y Liu, Z Ren, N Zhang, X Yang, Q Wu, Z Cheng… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Synthetic polypeptides have emerged as versatile tools in both materials science and
biomedical engineering due to their tunable properties and biodegradability. While the …

Polyoxometalates impact as anticancer agents

F Carvalho, M Aureliano - International journal of molecular sciences, 2023 - mdpi.com
Polyoxometalates (POMs) are oxoanions of transition metal ions, such as V, Mo, W, Nb, and
Pd, forming a variety of structures with a wide range of applications. Herein, we analyzed …

Polyoxometalate–peptide hybrid materials: from structure–property relationships to applications

H Soria-Carrera, E Atrián-Blasco, R Martín-Rapún… - Chemical …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Organo-functionalisation of polyoxometalates (POMs) represents an effective approach to
obtain diverse arrays of functional structures and materials, where the introduction of organic …

Latest progress in asymmetrically functionalized Anderson-type polyoxometalates

Q Zhuang, Z Sun, CG Lin, B Qi, YF Song - Inorganic Chemistry …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Anderson-type polyoxometalates (POMs) are one of the most important and widely
developed groups of the POM family. The covalent functionalization of Anderson POMs has …