Emerging applications for living crystallization-driven self-assembly

L MacFarlane, C Zhao, J Cai, H Qiu, I Manners - Chemical Science, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
The use of crystallization as a tool to control the self-assembly of polymeric and molecular
amphiphiles in solution is attracting growing attention for the creation of non-spherical …

Effects of morphology and size of nanoscale drug carriers on cellular uptake and internalization process: a review

W Zhang, R Taheri-Ledari, F Ganjali… - RSC …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
In the field of targeted drug delivery, the effects of size and morphology of drug nanocarriers
are of great importance and need to be discussed in depth. To be concise, among all the …

AIE-active, stimuli-responsive fluorescent 2D block copolymer nanoplatelets based on corona chain compression

S Lei, J Tian, Y Kang, Y Zhang… - Journal of the American …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Aggregation-induced emission (AIE) represents a powerful tool in nanoscience as a result of
enhanced luminescence in the condensed state. Although AIEgenic materials have been …

Scalable and uniform length-tunable biodegradable block copolymer nanofibers with a polycarbonate core via living polymerization-induced crystallization-driven self …

CE Ellis, JD Garcia-Hernandez… - Journal of the American …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Uniform 1D block copolymer (BCP) nanofibers prepared by the seeded-growth approach
termed living crystallization-driven self-assembly (CDSA) offer promising potential for …

π-Conjugated-polymer-based nanofibers through living crystallization-driven self-assembly: preparation, properties and applications

J Ma, G Lu, X Huang, C Feng - Chemical Communications, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
π-Conjugated-polymer-based nanofibers (CPNFs) of controlled length, composition and
morphology are promising for a broad range of emerging applications in optoelectronics …

Corona-loading strategies for crystalline particles made by living crystallization-driven self-assembly

S Ganda, CK Wong, MH Stenzel - Macromolecules, 2021 - ACS Publications
Self-assembled block copolymer (BCP) nanoparticles offer exciting opportunities for drug
delivery applications. A key feature of using BCP nanoparticles for drug delivery is their …

(Bio) degradable and biocompatible Nano-objects from polymerization-induced and crystallization-driven self-assembly

C Zhu, J Nicolas - Biomacromolecules, 2022 - ACS Publications
Polymerization-induced self-assembly (PISA) and crystallization-driven self-assembly
(CDSA) techniques have emerged as powerful approaches to produce a broad range of …

Investigating the influence of block copolymer micelle length on cellular uptake and penetration in a multicellular tumor spheroid model

Q Yu, MG Roberts, L Houdaihed, Y Liu, K Ho, G Walker… - Nanoscale, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
The efficient penetration of drug nanocarriers into tumors is an important prerequisite for
therapeutic and diagnostic success. The physicochemical properties of nanocarriers …

Stealth nanorods via the aqueous living crystallisation-driven self-assembly of poly (2-oxazoline) s

JR Finnegan, EH Pilkington, K Alt, MA Rahim… - Chemical …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
The morphology of nanomaterials critically influences their biological interactions. However,
there is currently a lack of robust methods for preparing non-spherical particles from …

Length-controlled nanofiber micelleplexes as efficient nucleic acid delivery vehicles

STG Street, J Chrenek, RL Harniman… - Journal of the …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Micelleplexes show great promise as effective polymeric delivery systems for nucleic acids.
Although studies have shown that spherical micelleplexes can exhibit superior cellular …