Peptides have been extensively utilized to construct nanomaterials that display targeted
structure through hierarchical assembly. The self-assembly of both rationally designed …

Chemical methods developed over the past two decades enable preparation of colloidal
nanocrystals with uniform size and shape. These Brownian objects readily order into …

Semiconductor-based biointerfaces are typically established either on the surface of the
plasma membrane or within the cytoplasm. In Gram-negative bacteria, the periplasmic …

The field of chiral inorganic nanostructures is rapidly expanding. It started from the
observation of strong circular dichroism during the synthesis of individual nanoparticles …

Precise nanomedicine has been extensively explored for efficient cancer imaging and
targeted cancer therapy, as evidenced by a few breakthroughs in their preclinical and …

Self-assembly of various building blocks has been considered as a powerful approach to
generate novel materials with tailorable structures and optimal properties. Understanding …

Molecular material properties depend upon the contacts between and the arrangement of
the component parts, and therefore supramolecular chemistry has developed a highly …

Hydrogen (H2) is one of the most important clean and renewable energy sources for future
energy sustainability. Nowadays, photocatalytic and electrocatalytic hydrogen evolution …

Hybrid functional materials, constituting both inorganic and organic components, are
considered potential platforms for applications in extremely diverse fields such as optics …

Self-assembly, which makes use of molecules rather than atomic units, offers a bottom-up
approach to the construction of new materials on multiple length scales.(1-9) By precisely …