Emerging chirality in nanoscience

Y Wang, J Xu, Y Wang, H Chen - Chemical Society Reviews, 2013 - pubs.rsc.org
Chirality in nanoscience may offer new opportunities for applications beyond the traditional
fields of chirality, such as the asymmetric catalysts in the molecular world and the chiral …

Biomineralization: An opportunity and challenge of nanoparticle drug delivery systems for cancer therapy

W Wang, X Liu, X Zheng, HJ Jin… - Advanced healthcare …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Biomineralization is a common process in organisms to produce hard biomaterials by
combining inorganic ions with biomacromolecules. Multifunctional nanoplatforms are …

Complex silica composite nanomaterials templated with DNA origami

X Liu, F Zhang, X Jing, M Pan, P Liu, W Li, B Zhu, J Li… - Nature, 2018 - nature.com
Genetically encoded protein scaffolds often serve as templates for the mineralization of
biocomposite materials with complex yet highly controlled structural features that span from …

Transitioning DNA‐engineered nanoparticle superlattices from solution to the solid state

E Auyeung, RJ Macfarlane, CHJ Choi, JI Cutler… - Advanced …, 2012 - infona.pl
DNA‐nanoparticle superlattices are transferred to the solid state by silica encapsulation.
Whereas these materials previously existed only in solution, this method allows the …

DNA nanostructures as templates for biomineralization

D Athanasiadou, KMM Carneiro - Nature Reviews Chemistry, 2021 - nature.com
Nature uses extracellular matrix scaffolds to organize biominerals into hierarchical structures
over various length scales. This has inspired the design of biomimetic mineralization …

Biomolecule-mediated chiral nanostructures: a review of chiral mechanism and application

Y Wen, MQ He, YL Yu, JH Wang - Advances in Colloid and Interface …, 2021 - Elsevier
The chirality of biomolecules is vital importance in biosensing and biomedicine. However,
most biomolecules only have a chiral response in the ultraviolet region, and the …

Silica biomineralization via the self‐assembly of helical biomolecules

B Liu, Y Cao, Z Huang, Y Duan, S Che - Advanced Materials, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
The biomimetic synthesis of relevant silica materials using biological macromolecules as
templates via silica biomineralization processes attract rapidly rising attention toward natural …

A programmable DNA‐silicification‐based nanocavity for single‐molecule plasmonic sensing

L Liang, P Zheng, C Zhang, I Barman - Advanced Materials, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Plasmonic nanocavities are highly desirable for optical sensing because of their singular
ability to confine light into deep subwavelength volumes. Yet, it remains profoundly …

Nanofabrication based on DNA nanotechnology

Y Zhao, X Dai, F Wang, X Zhang, C Fan, X Liu - Nano Today, 2019 - Elsevier
Nanofabrication refers to manufacturing objects with nanometer dimensions. The evolution
of DNA nanotechnology has brought new inspirations to this field, owing to the …

Programmable and site‐specific patterning on DNA origami templates with heterogeneous condensation of silver and silica

Y Zhao, C Zhang, L Yang, X Xu, R Xu, Q Ma, Q Tang… - Small, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
DNA origami has been widely used as a modular platform for condensation of functional
molecules to assemble optical, electronic, and biological components. However, the …