Photoluminescent nanoparticles for chemical and biological analysis and imaging

WR Algar, M Massey, K Rees, R Higgins… - Chemical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Research related to the development and application of luminescent nanoparticles (LNPs)
for chemical and biological analysis and imaging is flourishing. Novel materials and new …

Protein assembly: versatile approaches to construct highly ordered nanostructures

Q Luo, C Hou, Y Bai, R Wang, J Liu - Chemical Reviews, 2016 - ACS Publications
Nature endows life with a wide variety of sophisticated, synergistic, and highly functional
protein assemblies. Following Nature's inspiration to assemble protein building blocks into …

Nanoengineered peptide‐based antimicrobial conductive supramolecular biomaterial for cardiac tissue engineering

P Chakraborty, H Oved, D Bychenko, Y Yao… - Advanced …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Owing to their dynamic nature and ordered architecture, supramolecular materials strikingly
resemble organic components of living systems. Although short‐peptide self‐assembled …

Engineering precise sequence-defined polymers for advanced functions

Q Shi, Z Deng, M Hou, X Hu, S Liu - Progress in Polymer Science, 2023 - Elsevier
Unlike natural macromolecules (eg, nucleic acids and proteins) possessing precisely
defined molar mass, chain sequence, chirality, and topology, synthetic polymers are typically …

Self‐assembly in nature: using the principles of nature to create complex nanobiomaterials

AC Mendes, ET Baran, RL Reis… - Wiley interdisciplinary …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Self‐assembly is a ubiquitous process in biology where it plays numerous important roles
and underlies the formation of a wide variety of complex biological structures. Over the past …

Applications of discrete synthetic macromolecules in life and materials science: recent and future trends

R Aksakal, C Mertens, M Soete, N Badi… - Advanced …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
In the last decade, the field of sequence‐defined polymers and related ultraprecise,
monodisperse synthetic macromolecules has grown exponentially. In the early stage, mainly …

Protein cage assembly across multiple length scales

WM Aumiller, M Uchida, T Douglas - Chemical Society Reviews, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
Within the materials science community, proteins with cage-like architectures are being
developed as versatile nanoscale platforms for use in protein nanotechnology. Much effort …

A systematic framework and nanoperiodic concept for unifying nanoscience: Hard/soft nanoelements, superatoms, meta-atoms, new emerging properties, periodic …

DA Tomalia, SN Khanna - Chemical reviews, 2016 - ACS Publications
Development of a central paradigm is undoubtedly the single most influential force
responsible for advancing Dalton's 19th century atomic/molecular chemistry concepts to the …

Influence of surface topographical cues on the differentiation of mesenchymal stem cells in vitro

K Metavarayuth, P Sitasuwan, X Zhao… - ACS Biomaterials …, 2016 - ACS Publications
Adult stem cell research has been advanced in recent years because of the cells' attractive
abilities of self-renewal and differentiation. Topography of materials is one of the key …

Progressive Macromolecular Self‐Assembly: From Biomimetic Chemistry to Bio‐Inspired Materials

Y Zhao, F Sakai, L Su, Y Liu, K Wei, G Chen… - Advanced …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Macromolecular self‐assembly (MSA) has been an active and fruitful research field since the
1980s, especially in this new century, which is promoted by the remarkable developments in …