Hierarchical nanomaterials assembled from peptoids and other sequence-defined synthetic polymers

Z Li, B Cai, W Yang, CL Chen - Chemical Reviews, 2021 - ACS Publications
In nature, the self-assembly of sequence-specific biopolymers into hierarchical structures
plays an essential role in the construction of functional biomaterials. To develop synthetic …

A critical review on polymeric biomaterials for biomedical applications

C Kalirajan, A Dukle, AJ Nathanael, TH Oh… - Polymers, 2021 - mdpi.com
Natural and synthetic polymers have been explored for many years in the field of tissue
engineering and regeneration. Researchers have developed many new strategies to design …

Fabrication of bioinspired hydrogels: challenges and opportunities

H Fan, JP Gong - Macromolecules, 2020 - ACS Publications
Since the birth of synthetic hydrogel 60 years ago, hydrogels possessing various useful
properties and functions have been developed. The research directions of hydrogels have …

Neuromorphic properties of flexible carbon nanotube/polydimethylsiloxane nanocomposites

R Liu, JG Kim, P Dhakal, W Li, J Ma, A Hou… - … Composites and Hybrid …, 2023 - Springer
Neuromorphic materials are promising for fabricating artificial synapses for flexible
electronics, but they are usually expensive and lack a good combination of electronic and …

100th anniversary of macromolecular science viewpoint: Opportunities in the physics of sequence-defined polymers

SL Perry, CE Sing - ACS Macro Letters, 2020 - ACS Publications
Polymer science has been driven by ever-increasing molecular complexity, as polymer
synthesis expands an already-vast palette of chemical and architectural parameter space …

Geared toward applications: A perspective on functional sequence-controlled polymers

C Yang, KB Wu, Y Deng, J Yuan, J Niu - ACS macro letters, 2021 - ACS Publications
Sequence-controlled polymers are an emerging class of synthetic polymers with a regulated
sequence of monomers. In the past decade, tremendous progress has been made in the …

Multidimensional control of repeating unit/sequence/topology for one-step synthesis of block polymers from monomer mixtures

X Xia, T Gao, F Li, R Suzuki, T Isono… - Journal of the American …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Synchronously and thoroughly adjusting the chemical structure difference between two
blocks of the diblock copolymer is very useful for designing materials but difficult to achieve …

Biomaterials in treatment of Alzheimer's disease

M Agrawal, E Prathyusha, H Ahmed, SK Dubey… - Neurochemistry …, 2021 - Elsevier
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a non-recoverable progressive neurodegenerative disorder
most prevalent but not limited to the old age population. After all the scientific efforts, there …

Tailoring Hierarchical Structure and Rare Earth Affinity of Compositionally Identical Polymers via Sequence Control

PA Dykeman-Bermingham, MP Bogen… - Journal of the …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Macromolecule sequence, structure, and function are inherently intertwined. While well-
established relationships exist in proteins, they are more challenging to define for synthetic …

Liquid sculpture and curing of bio-inspired polyelectrolyte aqueous two-phase systems

C Zhang, X Liu, J Gong, Q Zhao - Nature Communications, 2023 - nature.com
Aqueous two-phase systems (ATPS) provide imperative interfaces and compartments in
biology, but the sculpture and conversion of liquid structures to functional solids is …