Molecular interactions driving the layer-by-layer assembly of multilayers

J Borges, JF Mano - Chemical reviews, 2014 - ACS Publications
Over the last few decades there has been a huge interest in nanostructured functional
materials and assembly techniques for preparing functional molecular assemblies with …

Current trends and future perspectives of bone substitute materials–from space holders to innovative biomaterials

A Kolk, J Handschel, W Drescher, D Rothamel… - Journal of Cranio …, 2012 - Elsevier
An autologous bone graft is still the ideal material for the repair of craniofacial defects, but its
availability is limited and harvesting can be associated with complications. Bone …

Nano-, micro-, and macroscale drug delivery systems for cancer immunotherapy

P Huang, X Wang, X Liang, J Yang, C Zhang, D Kong… - Acta biomaterialia, 2019 - Elsevier
Immunotherapy is moving to the frontier of cancer treatment. Drug delivery systems (DDSs)
have greatly advanced the development of cancer immunotherapeutic regimen and …

Layer-by-layer assembly of microcapsules and their biomedical applications

W Tong, X Song, C Gao - Chemical Society Reviews, 2012 - pubs.rsc.org
Nanoengineered multifunctional capsules with tailored structures and properties are of
particular interest due to their multifunctions and potential applications as new colloidal …

A closer physico-chemical look to the Layer-by-Layer electrostatic self-assembly of polyelectrolyte multilayers

E Guzman, RG Rubio, F Ortega - Advances in Colloid and Interface Science, 2020 - Elsevier
The fabrication of polyelectrolyte multilayer films (PEMs) using the Layer-by-Layer (LbL)
method is one of the most versatile approaches for manufacturing functional surfaces. This is …

Polyelectrolyte multilayered assemblies in biomedical technologies

RR Costa, JF Mano - Chemical Society Reviews, 2014 - pubs.rsc.org
Layer-by-layer (LbL) was first introduced as a surface modification technique based on the
sequential spontaneous adsorption of at least two distinct materials onto planar substrates …

Recent progress in interfacial polymerization

Y Song, JB Fan, S Wang - Materials Chemistry Frontiers, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
Interfacial polymerization is one of the most important methods to fabricate polymer particles
and membranes. As compared to bulk polymerization, interfacial polymerization is a type of …

Layer-by-Layer polyelectrolyte assemblies for encapsulation and release of active compounds

E Guzmán, A Mateos-Maroto, M Ruano… - Advances in colloid and …, 2017 - Elsevier
Soft assemblies obtained following the Layer-by-Layer (LbL) approach are accounted
among the most interesting systems for designing biomaterials and drug delivery platforms …

A molecular thermodynamic model of complexation in mixtures of oppositely charged polyelectrolytes with explicit account of charge association/dissociation

A Salehi, RG Larson - Macromolecules, 2016 - ACS Publications
Into an extended Voorn–Overbeek (EVO) free energy model of polyelectrolyte (PE)
complexation and phase behavior, we incorporate three classes of short-ranged …

Polyelectrolyte multilayers assembled entirely from immune signals on gold nanoparticle templates promote antigen-specific T cell response

P Zhang, YC Chiu, LH Tostanoski, CM Jewell - Acs Nano, 2015 - ACS Publications
Materials that allow modular, defined assembly of immune signals could support a new
generation of rationally designed vaccines that promote tunable immune responses. Toward …